Strategy: The figures speak for themselves. The adoption of Windows 8 on the market is well below that of the last great failure of Microsoft’s operating systems, namely Vista.
Windows advocates protest, but figures from Net Applications for operating systems for desktop computers do not lie. Catastrophic figures adoption of Windows 8 by users are not even up to those already deplorable Vista.
Using Windows 8 can not even at the poor figures Vista. (Data from Net Applications)
The figures speak for themselves. Widely regarded as a failure, Vista has yet scored significantly better than Windows 8 digits adoption. At a similar stage of their deployment, Vista had a market share on the desktop of 4.52%, against 2.67% for Windows 8. To show how the adoption of Windows 8 did not, Vista had not even received holiday season to increase sales. In December, the tablets are (not tablets Surface RT) that are sold, not PC Windows 8.
failure of Windows 8 is actually bigger than it looks. In 2007, the market for tablets and phones were almost nonexistent. Today, in a market where the NDP expects to sell more tablets than laptops by the end of the year, neither Windows nor its Windows 8 and Windows Phone 8 RT cousins ??appear in reports Net applications on mobile phones and tablets to February 2013. How bad is it? Android 1.6, which represents only 0.02% of the market, meanwhile appears on the list.
Last year, I predicted the insured failure of Windows 8, but the fiasco is even worse than I had imagined. Why Windows 8 will he prove such a failure? I made a list.
1. Metro, also known as Modern: an ugly and unusable interface
I say and I repeat: Metro, or whatever name you want to call it, can be a proper interface for a tablet, but it is ugly and useless on a desktop system. It requires users to forget everything they know about Windows and learn a whole new way of doing, for no real reason. To resume a widespread opinion, Metro is a “disaster.”
Sure, you can use a more traditional Windows interface, but what was even better is that Microsoft simply keep the Aero interface of Windows 7 to the desktop version of Windows 8 and abandons the idea fetched that the Metro interface for touch screen suitable for all devices.
2. Windows 8 has brought nothing innovative Desktop System
Can you give me a new thing that Windows 8 has brought to the desktop system and that was really innovative? Promising? Attractive? Well, not me. Windows 8 is faster than Windows 7, but that’s about it, besides the history of dual interface makes it slower for the practical operations.
3. The developers hate
I’ve always said that programmers do not want to give up their hard-won expertise. NET, Windows Communication Foundation (WCF) and Windows Presentation Foundation (WPF) to work natively on Windows 8. I was right. Gabe Newell, co-founder and CEO of video game publisher Valve, perfectly sums up the back of my mind: “Windows 8 is a disaster for all those who operate in the PC world.” He then began to migrate its empire game Steam to Linux.
4. Existing users of Windows 7 will remain faithful
We saw the same phenomenon with Vista and XP. Back then, as now, the new operating system (Vista) was not better than the old (XP), so few users have switched to the new version. This is the same phenomenon that we are witnessing today.
Moreover, in an economy that continues to operate at idle, which would give Windows 7 has proven to benefit the new Windows 8 PC expensive? As noted by Shaw Wu, analyst at Sterne Agee, the price from 500 to 1200 dollars applied to computers running Windows 8 makes “non-competitive” in a world where users want iPad and Android tablets.
5. Competition from tablets, smartphones and
desktop systems
If you buy a new computer unit in 2013, it is likely to be it an Apple iPad, a cheap Android tablet or Chromebook. The PC is not dead, but it is not very profitable either, and does not help Windows 8 PC sales.
Microsoft should take note. The day Microsoft will start selling, or rather rent, Microsoft Office for iPad, you’ll know that it will finally be restored to reason. The future of Microsoft then do not reside in sales of applications and operating systems, but in services.
Windows 8 in all this? Like Vista before it, Microsoft emerge an older version of Windows (Windows 7 this time, not XP) and begin to sing the praises of Blue Windows, the next version of Windows
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