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Windows 8 Even Less Popular Than Vista
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."
the metro-first push is the deal-breaker for me... along with everything that's being used to force metro, microsoft's app store and microsoft accounts on people..
they even went so far as to FORCE PEOPLE TO SIGN UP FOR AN APP STORE ACCOUNT (microsoft), which includes providing personal information, JUST TO DOWNLOAD THE FUCKING GAMES (which are metro now, btw) that have always been a part of windows previously... and that most people play at least a little (i know some that basically use their computers just for spider or free cell and nothing else)
the big winner for windows 8 is that fucking nuisance, wild tangent, which has distribution deals with all the large pc makers... their trials and drm/game engine are now the only games that are preinstalled on the majority of windows 8 computers sold at retail.... the average /. reader will know how and where to get games from other sources, but the masses aren't that bright.. they'll see the preloaded trials and think "that's just how it is now" and buy from those scumbags.. not even realizing there are alternatives.
What can I say?
This ain't the first time the /. editors fscked up.
Muchas Gracias, Señor Edward Snowden !
Just like they did for the Office ribbon? Microsoft rarely goes back. They'll tone it down, modify it or move on to something else.
I imagine Microsoft may just release a patch that fixes everything into a "classic" view to gain more sales.
Indeed. Every day I spend with Win 8, I dislike it more. Tried to add a network printer, but it was not auto-detected in the new metro interface. However when I went the old route in the control panel to add a new printer, it was auto-detected immediately.
When such basic functionality is not working in the new interface (which one would assume is actually backed by the same underlying OS components), there's a real problem. This is aside from the unpleasantness of the interface itself, at least when using non-touch or wanting to actually multitask.
The only things going for it so far are the improvements to file transfer and the task manager program.
it quite probably will, people buy a Windows 8 tablet and then find they cannot run Windows apps on it (as they bought the ARM version, 99% of consumers won't know the difference beyond the price, battery life, and the considerable weight of the Pro version).
BBC Click did a review of Win8, and you can expect them to be as impartial as you're going to get - certainly compared to the other reviews on sites that also have "sponsored by Microsoft" articles. They weren't too complimentary whilst still being polite (its at the start of the programme, first 7 minutes).
They also did a review of Surface - they did not like it, basically. (14 minutes in, 4 minutes long, just past the nice bit with the raspberry pi and Mike Powell at 9:30). they really showed how useless the keyboard is too - see 15:20 in for the demo....
That's just insulting. The back-office admin staff aren't the problem, it's those assclowns in sales and marketing. Trying to teach them anything new that involves thinking skills is a wasted effort.