http://www.tomshardware.co.uk/Windows-8-Sales-Microsoft-OS,news-41160.html
Not looking good for windows 8.
Not looking good for windows 8.
Windows 8 Sales 'Well Below' Projections For Microsoft
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4 million units in 3 days?
That looks shocking!
Sarcasm aside, it'll do fine. There's always plenty of retard and doom and gloom around a MS launch, this article is a prime example of it.
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The 4 million was Ballmers figure for units sold to retail, not sold to the actual customer.
No it wasn't, it was 4million downloads. Downloads are not to retailers.
That figure did not include any of the pre installed or retailer copies or boxed copies.
Blog means nothing, with out solid numbes.
The numbers we've seen so far are very favorable.
In the uk laptop sales were 20% above projections, 4million upgrade downloads in 3days.
Although projections will be massively hampered by the lack of tablets. Which has been a massive **** up. As many analysts expected windows tablets to outsales windows desktops in 2013.
And obviously Ms would have projected for tablets to go on sale end of October. Most have been pushed back to mid December and it I bet they'll be pushed back again to new year.
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WinXP had poor launch sales too. So bad in fact that even Vista beat it on launch figures.
Windows 8 is an OS that's in it for the long haul. It's a grower and you'll find that peoples perceptions of it will change massively over the next 12 months as more and more devices in new form factors become available and the platform as a whole gains traction.
The OS itself is faultless at this point in time. Yes faults will be found as more sophisticated Metro apps come along but it's a whole new platform that Microsoft can patch more frequently than "desktop Windows".
Where Microsoft has made mistakes however in in the marketing and delivery. The TV adverts for Surface were utterly abysmal. The Windows 8 adverts are just about passable but still seem to lack any real message. More tragically has been the OEM partners failing to actually launch anything. At least here in the UK.
Windows 8 is an OS that's in it for the long haul. It's a grower and you'll find that peoples perceptions of it will change massively over the next 12 months as more and more devices in new form factors become available and the platform as a whole gains traction.
The OS itself is faultless at this point in time. Yes faults will be found as more sophisticated Metro apps come along but it's a whole new platform that Microsoft can patch more frequently than "desktop Windows".
Where Microsoft has made mistakes however in in the marketing and delivery. The TV adverts for Surface were utterly abysmal. The Windows 8 adverts are just about passable but still seem to lack any real message. More tragically has been the OEM partners failing to actually launch anything. At least here in the UK.
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but the people who are moaning and are to lazy to lean a new UI may have spoiled it for other people who like/love the new UI if MS add the start menu back without a option.
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I think Windows 7 is successful and people don't want to move from it because it's that stable with the right hardware. Users don't want to move but techie people do.
Just make a Shutdown shortcut.....? Its not hard.
Either that or buy a keyboard with dedicated buttons or something.
18 clicks
its 3 clicks to turn off.... or make a shortcut to shutdown
Sarcasm fail, clearly
Don't worry boys, as I said in my post, I shall be pinning that shizz ja
I wonder how many of those downloads were like mine....down loaded, installed, had umpteen issues, uninstalled, nice stable W7 reinstalled, and now sitting on a USB stick doing nothing.
Start menu or not wasn't the issue for me (simple enough to install a replacement) although it seemed long winded to do a lot of things, but the Metro UI not just staying on the monitor I put it on, and not being able to have the Metro on one monitor while using a desktop on another....also the issues I had with streaming on my network (but that may be peculiar to my setup rather than an inherrent problem with W8). I really liked the liveapps and wanted the UI on on a dedicated monitor, while I could work on the other two as normal....not to be.
There was much to like, but not enough that I will be swapping a rock solid, totally dependable W7 installation for W8 in the near future.
W8 will now be installed on my HP touchmate instead.
Start menu or not wasn't the issue for me (simple enough to install a replacement) although it seemed long winded to do a lot of things, but the Metro UI not just staying on the monitor I put it on, and not being able to have the Metro on one monitor while using a desktop on another....also the issues I had with streaming on my network (but that may be peculiar to my setup rather than an inherrent problem with W8). I really liked the liveapps and wanted the UI on on a dedicated monitor, while I could work on the other two as normal....not to be.
There was much to like, but not enough that I will be swapping a rock solid, totally dependable W7 installation for W8 in the near future.
W8 will now be installed on my HP touchmate instead.
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I still think they should have made metro optional or even bring out a service pack for windows 7 that made it a little like windows 8 and let businesses catch up with products for a few years.
The problem is if you make Metro optional and it becomes the popular thing to do you've then just completely shafted the developers you've tried to get on board with WinRT.
Its a complicated situation - much more complex than people give credit for. Windows 8 isn't perfect but there is a rationale behind most of the controversial design choices.
Its a complicated situation - much more complex than people give credit for. Windows 8 isn't perfect but there is a rationale behind most of the controversial design choices.
What do they expect when they try to pass a tablet UI off onto desktop users as if it's something revolutionary?
I saw an article a while back that Windows 8 pre-orders were well below that of Windows 7 on release so this news was to be expected, most people are probably just opting to wait for Windows 9.
I saw an article a while back that Windows 8 pre-orders were well below that of Windows 7 on release so this news was to be expected, most people are probably just opting to wait for Windows 9.
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Not even close I bet, the problem is we are not coming from Vista to Windows whatever.
People are coming from Windows7, which is a just fine and remarkably stable OS, people really are not going to feel the same way about upgrading from it.