Posted on 11/30/2012 8:52:10 AM PST by SeekAndFind
NPD research published some horrible news for Microsoft yesterday.
* Despite releasing an entirely new operating system on October 22 of this year, Windows PC sales shrank 21% between 10/21 and 11/17 versus the same period last year.
* Windows 8 tablet sales during that period were "almost nonexsistent" – just 1% of all Windows 8 sales.
“It hasn’t made the market any worse, but it hasn’t stimulated things either,” Stephen Baker, an analyst at NPD, told the New York Times. “It hasn’t provided the impetus to sales everybody hoped for.”
No kidding.
Yesterday, we reported other bad news:
Asus CFO David Chang's comment that "demand for Windows 8 is not that good right now."
Microsoft cut its order of Surface tablets for the year to two million units, down from four million.
This is a very scary time for Microsoft.
(Excerpt) Read more at businessinsider.com ...
You just can’t make this stuff up lol...
another Apple killer um doesn’t
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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.
I want to replace my old WIN desktop which I run off a router from my new WIN laptop and I want to buy a new I MAC desktop computer after the holidays. As a probable newbie to a MAC purchase and set-up I have a question.
Question: Will my current router running off of my Windows machine work with a MAC? Or do I have to get another router?
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DING DING, WINNER! We are having major problems with out side customers that are using Windows 8 against our corporate software. No one has the programming resources to keep up with the of “one upmanship” of client programs that are buggier that $hit!
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.
You’re going to need to be a little more specific.
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.
Since I have installed Windows 8, I have not had a system crash (did all the time with WIN7)
Easy to use and much faster than Win7.
I went from Windows XP to Windows 8 owing to the new laptop I bought, a Sony Vaio. It’s not too bad, though it took me a couple of days to get to used to it. So far, I’ve only got the BSOD once! And of course, the BSOD is your assurance as a consumer that you have, indeed, purchased genuine Microsoft software. :)
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.
The FUD-meisters getting FUDded, lol?
Freudenschade all over again.
Windows XP was fine. Windows 7 was fine.
Maybe make some upgrades, but no need to go entirely new.
Freepers, I think, are for the most part smarter and more adaptable than the general public. They can manage portability and synchronization on their own and don't like being constrained by Apple products. They don't represent the majority of the general population though.
You may be correct that the PC is dying. Won't be in my lifetime though (I'm 55). Before that happens the baseline computing knowledge of the general population will have to increase substantially.
JMO. Thanks for yours.
Microsoft is the new COBOL, it won’t be going away anytime soon, but it’s mostly going to be for legacy systems.
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.
Yep - I own what own in order to Do Stuff, not admire the OS. At home, I'm all Win 7, 32 and 64 bit. Got a utility laptop dual booting Win 7 and Ubuntu. Considering a Samsung Galaxy Note II for my next personal phone.
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