Windows 8 Even Less Popular Than Vista

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Windows 8 Even Less Popular Than Vista

Posted by Unknown on Monday December 31, 2012 @08:02PM from the even-gnome3-is-more-liked dept.

New submitter NettiWelho writes with even more bad news for Microsoft. From the article: "Windows 8 uptake has slipped behind Vista's at the same point after its release. Windows 8 online usage share is around 1.6% of all Windows PCs, which is less than the 2.2% share that Windows Vista commanded at the same two-month mark after release. Net Applications monitors operating system usage by recording OS version for around 40,000 sites it monitors for clients. The slowdown for Windows 8 adoption is a bad sign for Microsoft, who experienced great success with the release of Windows 7. Data was measured up to the 22nd of December, so there is still time by the end of the month for Windows 8 to claim a higher percentage of the user base."

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That's not the HTML you're looking for by Kazymyr · 2012-12-31 20:06 · Score: 5, Funny

Misses a "<"

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It's not dead. by Anonymous Coward · 2012-12-31 20:09 · Score: 5, Funny

It's resting.
1. Re:It's not dead. by mvdwege · 2013-01-01 00:02 · Score: 4, Funny
  
  It isn't terribly tricky to script an invocation of "explorer.exe shell:::{3080F90D-D7AD-11D9-BD98-0000947B0257}" on login;
  And ever since 2001 people have been telling me that that Linux thing would never catch on because it relied on too many arcane command invocations...
  
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2. Re:It's not dead. by MysteriousPreacher · 2013-01-01 02:16 · Score: 5, Funny
  
  Tell them it's a new life coaching/project management/quality methodology designed to align their deliverables with their metric milestones and increase partnership with cloud stakeholders.
  
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3. Re:It's not dead. by ColdWetDog · 2013-01-01 03:15 · Score: 1, Funny
  
  And this is why Linux will always fail on the desktop. While users have to type shit like that it will never be adopted to the masses and Windows will continue to... oh never mind.
  Say what? Only a Windows user would type that monstrosity out. ANYBODY ELSE (including Timothy) would script it. Hell, even a Windows admin would script it.
  And I'd love to see what happens when you type that into Ubuntu. Go ahead. I dare you.
  
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4. Re:It's not dead. by Gothmolly · 2013-01-01 04:56 · Score: 3, Funny
  
  It isn't terribly tricky to script an invocation of "explorer.exe shell:::{3080F90D-D7AD-11D9-BD98-0000947B0257}" on login;
  And Windows people claim Linux is "hard" because of its command line and .conf files?
  
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Re:FIRST!! by Kagetsuki · 2012-12-31 20:33 · Score: 5, Funny

No sticks. With Windows 8 you get a bunch of uncomroftable tiles, but no sticks.
Re:Will Microsoft call on Burson-Marsteller to fix by Anonymous Coward · 2012-12-31 20:37 · Score: 3, Funny

It sounds like your Mom is trying for every timezone then. I had her for Central Time.
In his house at Redmond... by tooyoung · 2012-12-31 20:44 · Score: 4, Funny

In his house at Redmond dead Microsoft waits dreaming.
Re:Will Microsoft call on Burson-Marsteller to fix by MightyMartian · 2012-12-31 20:58 · Score: 3, Funny

It's kind of sad how some guys fall so hard for inflatable vaginas.

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I would try it by Brett+Buck · 2012-12-31 21:19 · Score: 3, Funny

Does it run on my Kin?
Re:Slashdot users are Windows users? by wonkey_monkey · 2012-12-31 22:27 · Score: 3, Funny

I'd have thought the demographic here was a tad more intelligent to be using Wintel rubbish.
Not sure about more intelligent, but they're certainly more condescending.

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Re:A couple things that kept me from upgrading... by isorox · 2012-12-31 23:03 · Score: 1, Funny

Classic Shell from source forge is a great app to bring back the start menu. I used it for my desktop Win8 system and couldn't be happier. Win8 = Win7 + faster boot and some nice apps. All very cool
Classic shell is progman.exe
Re:A couple things that kept me from upgrading... by Anonymous Coward · 2013-01-01 00:37 · Score: 0, Funny

1. The default UI was Metro.
2. They took my start button away.
3. Multi Monitor support was changed (Task bar now goes across all monitors).
MS's extensive market research proved that no one uses the start button, and that most people find multiple windows confusing. Your complaints are essentially analogous to those crazy people who complained about the loss of the command line in 1993.
MS was right to get rid of the command line in 1995 (notice how no other modern operating system has a text or script interface) and they're right to get rid of multi-application and mouse support in 2012. In another two decades, you'll see they were right. They're thinking so far ahead of the game, the rest of us don't even recognize the game they're playing. You need to get with the program.
Re:Will Microsoft call on Burson-Marsteller to fix by Guppy06 · 2013-01-01 01:14 · Score: 3, Funny

Yeah, kind of a bad sign when you buy your Fleshlight a Mac.
Re:/. editors that dunno html ... by realityimpaired · 2013-01-01 02:38 · Score: 3, Funny

More likely, the phrase was originally "countless numbers of times", which is a proper english expression, and on proofreading he double clicked "numbers" and pressed delete, forgetting about the "of" that was there.
I've done that a times. :)