It’s Friday yet again my friends, which means we have the time afforded to ourselves to take a peek back at the last seven days of Microsoft news. TNW has more Microsoft content coming over the weekend, so keep your eyes peeled. This week had two themes for the company: cash money, and market share. Ensure that you are following TNW’s Microsoft channel on Twitter and Facebook, and let’s get right to it. Among gamers, Windows 8 passes Windows XP Windows 8 market share among the gaming set is a key indicator of how well the operating system is performing in terms of mind share; gamers are not the largest piece of the PC market, but they are among its most discerning, making their preference an interesting indicator of future market adoption of software. Windows 8 has passed Windows XP among Steam users. Steam, a popular gaming platform, is kind enough to release data from its userbase. Here’s the latest: Ever since its release, Windows 8 has been the only version of Microsoft’s desktop operating system to gain share on Steam. [...] Three months ago, Windows 8 passed OS X on Steam, and last month,Windows 8 passed Windows Vista. Now, after just four months of availability, Windows 8 has already passed Windows XP. This puts the operating system neatly into second place on Steam, where it will likely stay for quite a while. Certainly, any version of Windows has an advantage over OS X and Linux in the gaming market, but it must be heartening to Microso
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