Win8 is an unworkable POS.
Classic shell allows the platform to work at least, but you still wander into Win8 oblivion much too often.
MS decided it would force customers to assimilate, or else.
The drop in sales is the “or else” in action. That’s what happens when you tell your customers to drop dead. Something is dropping, that’s for sure.
MS, right back at you... read the numbers and figure out why AND FIX IT.
MS needs to offer a WIN8 patch immediately that restores classic interface to WIN8 computers. MS purposely decided that people would have to learn to do without the classic interface that it considers a “crutch”. What MS doesn’t apparently understand is that to most casual users, that “crutch” was/is the face of Windows.
MS: those sales numbers are your New Coke revelation/warning. Either bring back classic Coke and admit you screwed this one up, or go away.
“Win8 is an unworkable POS.”
I have to disagree. I am becoming more of a fan of the tiles thingy as I use it. It is a much smaller difference than goung to a Mac (I have one of those too, and use it for very specific applications only). I am not about to change my pretty new high horsepower win7 machine, but I installed it on my old XP machine and it breathed new life into it. Added an SSD to the old machine and it is now a screamer. It will keep me from buying another PC for some time. BTW, writing this on an iPad.