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your gmail files are putting on some weight I'm Bridget Carey and this is your cnet update Microsoft has sold 40 million windows 8 licenses since it came out October 26th that's 40 million in one month when windows 7 came out it sold 60 million copies in two months so we'll have to wait until the end of the year to get a true sales comparison analysts have been expressing concerns about windows with one recently saying that Windows 8 is off to an awkward start with sluggish demand the whole new look is Microsoft's big bet to better compete in a time where people are thinking about getting an iPad instead of a laptop and Microsoft has not yet released any sales figures on how many surface tablets it's sold it costs forty dollars now to upgrade to Windows 8 you'll be able to easily share more holiday photos and videos over gmail because now gmail is letting users attach 10 gigabyte files but you can't just attach at the normal way there's a trick you first put the file into your Google Drive account and then you can insert the file into an email message I guess you could have previously attached a link to the dry file before but this just makes it easier with a dedicated button the feature is rolling out over the next few days there are a ton of app updates to keep an eye out for if you share videos on vimeo it just launched a redesigned free iphone app users can create and share videos from the app and navigation simpler the ipad version is in the works skype also updated its iOS app now users can log in to skype with a Microsoft account and chat with contacts on messenger hotmail and outlook.com and you can edit account details and use animated emoticons streaming music service rdio updated its Android and Apple apps with a new design there's also a remote control feature that lets you pause the station feed on your laptop and pick it back up on your phone or tablet Xbox Live has an update that fixes some bugs with SmartGlass and Xbox music if you haven't tried it yet SmartGlass is the new app that lets you control what plays on your xbox with your phone or tablet outlook.com that's Microsoft's new free email store service has its own android app now for anyone who couldn't already support exchange activesync emails in a blog post microsoft said there are 25 million active users of the new email and about a third of them are gmail users trying outlook.com for the first time that your tech news update you can find links to all of these stories on the blog sina com / update and you can always stay updated by following me on Twitter or Facebook from our studios in New York I'm Bridget Carey