Sounds like New Coke.
I bought my daughter a new laptop last month. We made sure we got one with Windows 7. The Win7 machines were on sale because Win8 was coming out.
Windows 8 sucks.
PERIOD.
It’s funny but it’s not funny. Microsoft going the way of RIM will cause a lot of grief and economic loss.
These loons need to get a grip. It may already be too late.
Ballmer needs to go.
They also need to stop with the mind numbed mantra of “The PC is dead!”
Microsoft created a customer base that expects failure and frustration with new Microsoft products. Even what’s left of the Microsoft loyal will wait a year or two for Microsoft to get the bugs worked out. It’s they way of the company (or at least is understood).
I’m surprised Microsoft has been so successful considering their track record.
Has there ever been a Windows OS release that wasn’t going to be “the death of Microsoft”?
I spent the $40 to load it onto my old Vista desktop.
It’s like a new computer. Very fast. Boot up only takes about 30 seconds. Used to be almost 10 minutes with Vista.
The start button is gone, replaced by a start screen (metro interface). Get to have apps like on phones and tablets.
People will get used to it. It will do fine. It is cheap. It is better.
As a standard that the industry could consolidate around Windows has always been an unqualified success (up until now).
As a pure OS - looking at Windows just as a pure engineering achievment
it’s always been mediocre to poor. Whether you want to look at performance,
efficiency, security, reliability, advanced capabilities or other metrics,
it’s never been all that good.
Windows 8 is probably the same turd just polished up a bit with tiles.
Ultimately, the market I think has voted on the quality of the OS as an OS, and probably doesn’t care *that* much about tiles, no tiles, or whatever.
Windows is OK but it ain’t great - and I suspect the market is merely
reflecting that fact.
You just can’t make this stuff up lol...
another Apple killer um doesn’t
Windows 8 RT is a STUPID CONCEPT.
I have ZERO interest in anything RT, If I wanted a lame os tablet android and apple have similar toys on the market.
They started with thier WEAKEST foot first.
The full blown windows 8 tablet at a 400 price point for the BEST model would be a market changer. by $400 I mean $400 with the keyboard and the biggest drive.
whoever is in charge of marketing should be fired and baumer should be canned for approving it.
RT should be ignobaly retired.
They said the same thing early in 7 and Vista.
The fact is the general population is not early adopters. Especially not at the OS level which usually is best to put on a new computer. Add to that the speed at which the new OSes have come out and the lengthening time people are keeping their PCs. People that bought brand new machines for Vista are probably just now in the contemplating upgrade phase. I bought a new machine right after Vista came out, but I put XP64 on it, eventually I added a HDD and upgraded it to 7, I’m at least 2 years away from getting rid of it, I’ll get 8 then... unless they’ve popped out another OS by then.
Balmer destroyed MS a long time ago.. It’s entire business model has been ourdated since before that.
MS has been nothing more than a me too company for nearly 2 decades now.
Is it going to go away? No, but it hasn’t been a tech mover in nearly 2 decades and likely wont be again anytime in the future.
Windows 95 was the last Microsoft operating system which I felt actually improved OS function to the point where there was enough of a "Wow!" factor which actually made you want to upgrade.
Since then, upgrades are just things that you are stuck with doing because your CPU died.
This isn’t windows 8 sales data first of all. This Is sales of PCs that includes the time before Windows 8 was even for sale.
Such a pathetic attempt at FUD BY the i-Linux crowd.
Windows XP was fine. Windows 7 was fine.
Maybe make some upgrades, but no need to go entirely new.
This is silly. Win8 sales are upwards of 40 million (http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/11/28/windows-8-sales-40-million_n_2204935.html).
Of course box sales (online like Newegg or brick&mortar like Best Buy are low; why pay $80 for a cardboard box when you can pay $40 for the same software until 12/31?
Win8 may not be as cool as Win7 after (ugh) Vista, but it’s no dog.
M$ business model was always based on monopoly.
Monopoly always works for a few decades, then eventually fails when either competition finds a way into the market or the entire environment changes and the monopoly’s product or sales model no longer makes sense.
Microsoft continues to make the same mistake, over and over, and over again.
They flat out refuse to survey their buying public to find out what they need and want from them, before launching new products (which they then attempt to force their public to buy).
Instead, the eggheads in Redmond think they know what products we need and want, better than we ourselves do. Being arrogant know-it-alls, is how you destroy a once successful company.