The issue focused on how long it would take to fix the Windows software after it had been leaked online. Here are some more examples of how this story has unfolded. By Monday evening, around 20m copies of Windows 8 had been downloaded in the US. By Tuesday morning, those figures had risen to close to 50m. By Wednesday morning, Windows 8 had become the top download on all of the major download sites. By Thursday morning, there were still around 30 million copies of Windows 8 available in the US.