Japanese insurance company will get 30,000 Windows 8 tablets for its staff

Aug 7, 2013 05:57 GMT  ·  By

Windows 8 may not be selling well, but Microsoft has managed to strike another important deal for its operating system, this time in Japan.

Meiji Yasuda Life Insurance Company has decided to purchase 30,000 Windows 8 tablets for its sales personnel, with first employees expected to get their hands of these devices in September 2013.

Of course, Microsoft used the occasion to praise its operating system and to say that Windows 8 provides great productivity features, offering a much more appealing package than the other devices on the market.

“Fujitsu, the partner leading the implementation of this deployment, selected Microsoft’s Windows 8 Pro enterprise operating system to develop a specialized Windows 8 tablet to improve customer service by digitizing procedures and providing beneficial information in an easily understandable format,” the company said.

As far as end users are concerned, Windows 8 is currently powering only 5.40 percent of computers worldwide, according to Net Applications data, and it still trails behind its predecessors, including Windows 7 (44.49 percent) and Windows XP (37.19 percent).