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Windows XP Drops Below 40% Market Share While Windows 8 Passes 1%
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."
Oh boy, I sure can't wait to install an OS with a phone interface on my desktop/laptop, that makes so much sense!
Oh boy, I sure can't wait to install an OS with a phone interface on my desktop/laptop, that makes so much sense!
Don't forget that it is a phone OS from a company that nobody buys phones from.
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Microsoft's biggest competitor has always been itself. This is an effect of having the software pre-installed and aiming for the unwashed masses who don't go beyond what they got with the machines.
As a side note, for shits and giggles I just ran the Windows 8 upgrade assistant and it informs me I will have to dump almost a quarter of the applications I use daily and that my screen resolution was too low for snap (whatever that is). It also informs me the touchscreen I have (HP Tx2Z) isn't compatible and that gestures won't work right. Now the question is why I should update and lose perfectly good software I purchased and is working right now as well as system functionality that is working right now just to have the "latest" version of an OS? Why should I go through the pain of the update when I don't need to? That will always be the Microsoft fight and why XP is hanging in there for so long.
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Oh boy, I sure can't wait to install an OS with a phone interface on my desktop/laptop, that makes so much sense!
So use the desktop interface then. It's still there.
No point. I'll stick with Windows 7 myself. It works just great, no point in upgrading.
Be seeing you...
other than the *many* shills, most people seem to be saying Win8 is fine if:
1) you ignore "Metro/Modern/whatever UI and the associated apps and only use the desktop
2) you install a start menu replacement
In other words, if you change Win8 to work the same way as XP/Win7 it is ok. So why again do I want Win8 on my desktop?
(Of course this is ignoring touch, which is a whole other conversation)