Gartner Analyst Retracts "Windows 8 Is Bad" Claim

Posted by timothy on Tuesday July 24, 2012 @12:42AM from the mmmm-kay? dept.

nk497 writes "A Gartner analyst made headlines after describing Windows 8 desktop as: 'in a word: bad.' After web reaction, including one story asking why anyone bothers to listen to the consultancy firm anymore, Gunnar Berger has now yanked the offending sentence from his blog post, saying it was taken out of context and only applied to using the desktop with a mouse and keyboard, and that overall Windows 8 is a good thing. 'If you look at my blog, I've gotten rid of it,' he said. 'It's upsetting me that it's being taken completely out of context.'"

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Full statement of retraction... by jkrise · 2012-07-24 01:23 · Score: -1, Flamebait

From the analyst: I was quoted out of context.
Windows 8 is NOT just BAD
Windows 8 is WORSE than Vista, and that is an understatement.
Windows 8 is the WORST desktop OS from Microsoft - ever!

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