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Windows XP Drops Below 40% Market Share While Windows 8 Passes 1%

Posted by timothy on from the meaningless-stats-to-ponder dept.

An anonymous reader writes "Just three months ago, we reported how Windows 7 had finally overtaken Windows XP in terms of market share. Now it's time to see how long it takes Windows 8 to succeed its predecessors. Between October to November, Windows XP fell to 39.82 percent while Windows 8 jumped to 1.09 percent."

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  1. Re:The Linux desktop beating Windows... by bmo · · Score: 5, Informative

    >Let me know when Ubuntu can do something simple like change the amount of lines scrolled with the mouse wheel.

    http://i.imgur.com/tfca6.png

    Look how silly you are. Look.

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  2. Re:I Wonder? by rtfa-troll · · Score: 5, Informative

    on this, but Win 8 is probably a better fit for inexperienced users than anything else out there right now.

    Please remember that it's for usability it's better to go with testing with multiple users than opinion since what seems to an technology expert to be good for a beginner might not actually be. In this case the testing has been done and a summary is avialable.

    having two environments on a single device is a prescription for usability problems for several reasons

    • Users have to learn and remember where to go for which features
    • [..]
    • Switching between environments increases the interaction cost of using multiple features.
    • [etc... ]

    Read the full report to get the rest. Basically added to an interface which has been designed for graphic effect rather than usability:

    the new look sacrifices usability on the altar of looking different than traditional GUIs

    this all adds up to a system which will take much longer to learn and have much higher training costs than other UIs which exist currently, including Windows 7.

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