Even if that person is in the car you're driving!
Posted on 12/30/2012 2:21:48 AM PST by Olog-hai
With just a week left in the month, Windows 8’s usage uptake has slipped behind Vista’s at the same point in its release, data from a Web measurement company showed.
According to Net Applications, Windows 8’s online usage share through Dec. 22 was 1.6% of all Windows PCs, an uptick from 1.2% of November. Windows 8 publicly launched on Oct. 26. At the same two-month mark in Vista’s release timetable, that OS accounted for 2.2% of all Windows systems, double the month prior. …
The slowdown in uptake of Windows 8 and its poor performance compared to Vista is a troubling sign for the new operating system. Vista has been labeled a rare Microsoft failure, in part because it was adopted by far fewer customers than either its predecessor, Windows XP, or its successor, Windows 7. …
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It seems to me that MS was trying to hard to integrate a new tablet (way overpriced) into the PC world. It would have worked if they simply offered and upgrade to W7.
I have one PC with 8 and it seems okay. Can’t really tell the difference. I am used to the tiles because I have Windows phone.
I haven’t yet tried to run any heavy editing programs on 8. I did download Adera for my son and the graphics are pretty good.
I liked 7 so much, and I imagine there are millions who do, that there is no real reason to upgrade to 8. Touch screens, which is what 8 was intended for, are very expensive and not readily available. Also, unless you want sit right in front of the screen and give up the keyboard, I don’t see how it’s going to work.
It’s a tablet OS shoehorned into PC’s. And other tablet OS’s are better and well established.
This site discusses Win8 and also has instructions on how to revert to the “Classic Shell” look. I downloaded Win8 and run a dual-boot. Played with 8 for a while and did not like it.
Like every OS it’s ever released, this one too will be the last nail in Microsoft’s coffin.
“According to Net Applications, Windows 8’s online usage share through Dec. 22 was 1.6% of all Windows PCs, an uptick from 1.2% of November. Windows 8 publicly launched on Oct. 26. At the same two-month mark in Vista’s release timetable, that OS accounted for 2.2% of all Windows systems, double the month prior. …”
So let’s read this like we would read most other stuff posted here from suspected news outlets. This site recently reported that MS’s market share had “fallen” to 26% or so percent after they magically counted all tablets and smartphones as the same as desktop PCs.
So why am I not surprised that they are trolling around the net looking at a company that measures hits to websites as some sort of “proof” to back up their deranged mission to bash Windows 8.
I think that once I get my new PC loaded up and running, I may download Win-8 and install it on the old one. That is, if I can still get it for $40 from MS.
I might enjoy playing with it to see what it can do, but I don’t want it on my active machine.
I have Vista 64 Business. I don't understand the negative press either except perhaps to confirm that the typical journalist is a mental midget. The major, but fixable problem with Vista is that many of the annoying, useless, and resourse draining bells and whistles are turned on by default, even thought they add nothing to the average user experience and if anything, they are a confusing distraction and a drag on the operating system. I searched the net for "Vista tweaks" and in about two hours I was able to reconfigure the the default settings so that annoying and useless bells and whistles are turned off by default or never load in the first place. The result is a fast and stable operating system that rivals my experiences with Windows 7. Indeed, in many respects Windows 7 is Vista with the annoying and resourse hogging bells and whistles turned off by default.
Microsoft convinced me that my computer is really pretty good and does not need replaced.
“Download and install Classic Shell - it’s free. You’ll (almost) never know Win 8 is your OS.”
That is the only thing which stopped me from returning an HP laptop I purchased for my wife.
It now looks and behaves like a Win 7 PC.
I have never detested an OS as much as Win 8. It does not belong on a PC but has a niche on a dumb phone, you know the phones used to play music badly, to surf the internet expensively, to read a book until your eyes bleed, to text the person next to you, oh and occasionally make a phone call assuming you have reception.
No wonder MS though they could sell Win 8 after all the cell phone marketers have been selling crap for years at a huge profit to people willing to buy piss poor quality.
Read 4 pages of reviews on CNET and vast majority were negative. Some call it "VISTA redux." Absence of Start seems to anger many. Business people do not like it.
So guess I'm in a holding pattern for awhile. Plan on visiting Best Buy after kids go back to school next week and crowds dissipate. Perhaps I can get a better feel for WIN-8 in person, as opposed to Youtube...
Yep - they do something decent with XP and 2000, then go back to the old trick of over-hyping a POS OS in the hopes of flooding the market with another product poeple will be only too willing to replace by purchasing the next one coming down the pike to replace it...
Should mention I use WIN-XP-Home. Have had few problems with it. At my age I do not fear change for the better. Change for the worse? Yes, of course. Not saying WIN-8 is the turd in the punch bowl. Just saying many, many prospective buyers have concerns.
Just buy start8 from stardock for $5 and you get the start button back.
Not that I needed a new computer - but after reading FR reports on Win8 recently, it seemed prudent to get a new computer —> with Win7. Yes, they are available, and seem to be in a certain demand.
I’m running Win 8 on this PC and it’s OK. The start menu...rather than being a pop-up menu is a full screen.
Getting the start menu to look the way I want has been tedious, but now that it is what I want I don’t hate Win 8. It uses fewer system resources than Win 7 and my total CPU usage is substantially lower with Win 8. Overall I’m not hating on it, but I’m not lovin’ it either. Essentially neutral. And for $40 it is acceptable.
Also at the time Vista came out the majority of applications common to small businesses were not yet ready for 64 bit OS. People were content with Windows XP and if there software vendors were not driving the upgrade in didn't happen. By the time Windows 7 came out, vendors were more often than not ready for 64 bit operating systems.
Truth - I still have many customers who are running business critical applications in XP mode on Windows 7 and the majority of the new machines are requested with 32 bit OS because of driver issues with legacy devices.
I updated day one. And de-updated day four.
That begs the question as to why.
Also makes me wonder if there are any Win 3.1 former users that miss the Program Manager . . . ?
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