Windows 8 Adoption Gaining Steam

[Void]

Mobile is definitely one large factor, however W8 sucking is still another. It's not just me -- a friend at work's laptop died and she was being told by many friends and even sales people to hold off due to W8 and the Metro / lack of start menu. Additional supporting evidence -- just in the past few months the head of Windows is gone at MS (Sinofsky) and then Ballmer's retirement is PUSHED. Ballmer was pushed out by Bill Gates for running his company like shit and W8 was the final straw (this is truth not crazy ass rumor). We also have MS quickly announcing a W8.1 with a lite start menu. There are often multiple things happening at the same time, and the combo of people with fast enuff computers, more mobile platforms, and W8 sucking has led to the large PC decline.

PC sales were in a decline before Windows 8 even released. Everyone and their brother knew how Windows 8 was gonna be and yet there was no up-surge of PC sales before hand, so people could get Windows 7 before it was to late. While Windows 8 may play a part in it, it is a very small part. The decline in PC sales are mostly the 2 factors I mentioned before. Hell even Apple has seen a decline in the last year or two.

As for people at MS losing their jobs, well if they had done more with Windows Rt then maybe they wouldn't have had to worry about it. How many MILLIONS where lost to RT? Someone head has got to roll for that big of a hit.

 

[SH1]

Debated on whether I should get a back up copy of Windows 7. And decided...nah...Windows 8 is serviceable. That said I'd definitely miss Aero Glass (the cleaned up version adapted from Windows 8 Consumer Preview)...

 

[DPI]

PC sales were in a decline before Windows 8 even released. Everyone and their brother knew how Windows 8 was gonna be and yet there was no up-surge of PC sales before hand, so people could get Windows 7 before it was to late. While Windows 8 may play a part in it, it is a very small part. The decline in PC sales are mostly the 2 factors I mentioned before. Hell even Apple has seen a decline in the last year or two.

As for people at MS losing their jobs, well if they had done more with Windows Rt then maybe they wouldn't have had to worry about it. How many MILLIONS where lost to RT? Someone head has got to roll for that big of a hit.

The "PC sales already on the decline" excuse is stale as it is weak. There's a difference between pumping the brakes on the decline and pressing the gas pedal. Win8 and specifically forced Metro b.s. hit the gas pedal.

 

[heatlesssun]

The "PC sales already on the decline" excuse is stale as it is weak. There's a difference between pumping the brakes on the decline and pressing the gas pedal. Win8 and specifically forced Metro b.s. hit the gas pedal.

If this were true though, why hasn't anything else on the desktop stepped up? Mac sales have also declined, Linux market share hasn't done jack, Chrome OS after years on the market still doesn't have enough market share to show up on these Internet traffic surveys to have it's own category.

The bottom line is that the conventional PC market is very weak currently. A Start Menu would change that. And that Metro BS is starting to get onto more hardware where Windows 7 wouldn't really work. The key to 8's growth is new hardware and it looks like OEMs are finally starting to get there. Devices like Toshiba's 8" Encore Bay Trail tablet that's going to go for $330. A much lower price point than any Windows 8 tablets were going for at the launch of 8 last year.

We'll know a lot more about 8 with the launch 8.1 and the next generation of devices coming this Fall and how the Holiday season fares. The funny thing is that with all of the proclamations of 8's failure it's adoption rate is very close to that of XP's about a year in, which only hit 10% market share in it's first year.

 

[Void]

The "PC sales already on the decline" excuse is stale as it is weak. There's a difference between pumping the brakes on the decline and pressing the gas pedal. Win8 and specifically forced Metro b.s. hit the gas pedal.

Not really weak when it's the truth. Even if they had kept the start menu it might have slowed it down but it would still be in a decline. Many people are not in the market for a traditional PC, mobile is slowly taking center stage. All one has to do is take the blinders off and they would see the truth.

 

[DPI]

Not really weak when it's the truth. Even if they had kept the start menu it might have slowed it down but it would still be in a decline. Many people are not in the market for a traditional PC, mobile is slowly taking center stage. All one has to do is take the blinders off and they would see the truth.

It MIGHT have slowed it down? Lol. The insistence on having no first party way to disable Metro and restore the start menu was the one, singular, deal breaker that kept business and enterprise from being able to consider it and force those evaluating an upgrade to go with Windows 7 and coast there for the next 5-10 years like many did on XP. In their haste to hurry a transition to a touchbased future they abandoned the past too soon and lost hundreds of millions of potential Windows 8 installs than had they given people the option to transition at their own speed, had more time to create a compelling experience in metro with better than half added, watered down apps, and then they would've been in a better position to tighten the screws and herd everyone in to the walled garden appstore future as they've envisioned it.

 

[DPI]

..that is, in a better position to tighten the noose by Win9. Whereas now they've created an expectation that Win9 will give people back what was missing I'm Win8, and when they don't there will be another backlash.

 

[Void]

It MIGHT have slowed it down? Lol. The insistence on having no first party way to disable Metro and restore the start menu was the one, singular, deal breaker that kept business and enterprise from being able to consider it and force those evaluating an upgrade to go with Windows 7 and coast there for the next 5-10 years like many did on XP. In their haste to hurry a transition to a touchbased future they abandoned the past too soon and lost hundreds of millions of potential Windows 8 installs than had they given people the option to transition at their own speed, had more time to create a compelling experience in metro with better than half added, watered down apps, and then they would've been in a better position to tighten the screws and herd everyone in to the walled garden appstore future as they've envisioned it.

Yes, might have. Lol