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Windows 8 Even Less Popular Than Vista

Posted by Unknown on 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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  1. That's not the HTML you're looking for by Kazymyr · · Score: 5, Funny

    Misses a "<"

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  2. It's not dead. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    It's resting.

    1. Re:It's not dead. by mvdwege · · 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 · · 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:FIRST!! by Kagetsuki · · Score: 5, Funny

    No sticks. With Windows 8 you get a bunch of uncomroftable tiles, but no sticks.

  4. In his house at Redmond... by tooyoung · · Score: 4, Funny

    In his house at Redmond dead Microsoft waits dreaming.