However, there is now a much higher volume of PC users worldwide than in 2001, and Windows 8?s upgrade price is far less than it has traditionally charged for new versions of Windows.
Upgrading to Windows 8 costs £43, compared to £88 for the full software package or £399 for the new Microsoft Surface tablet running Windows 8.
Many of the sales are to PC manufacturers, who in turn sell a large number of machines to companies, very few of which are using Windows 8 yet.
Only around one per cent of the world's 1.5 billion or so personal computers, or around 15 million PCs, are running Windows 8.
Ms Reller did not discuss sales figures for Microsoft's Surface tablet, which went onsale on the same date as the Windows 8 operating system.
The first Surface does not run old versions of Microsoft programs, but a larger version that will run the full Windows 8 Pro operating system and be fully compatible with the Office suite of applications will be available in January, Ms Reller told Reuters.
Ms Reller was named as one of two executives to run Microsoft's Windows unit after president Steven Sinofsky unexpectedly left two weeks ago.
Commenting on her new role, she added: "The team holistically is in great, great shape. And the product is in great shape.
"I think transitions are always somewhat of a challenge, but I think that timing-wise it is a reasonable time, and the team is busy."
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