Rumor: Windows 8 sales "well below" Microsoft's expectations

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kowenicki said:

mootap said:
Well I am still using windows 7 so that's 1 less sale than they want

I am pretty sure they dont expect the millions upon millions of Windows users to switch to Windows 8 immediately and they wont expect most of them to switch at all.  Its about new hardware and new purchaces more than anything.  It always is.

its about enterprise adoption and stemming the tied of apple into corporate networks ... and this effort is not good enough... really using this UI on a server back end like they have for 2012 what were they thinking .... thankfully you can deploy it in cmd line only though you loose some of the new features in management they are touting if you ditch the UI.... on the plus side the licensing terms are much better now 

also for home use whats with holding some of the best features back to only the enterprise version of 8?

windows to go, i have 5 systems at home and build and test others it would be great to have for testing deploys and trouble shooting

direct access another killer feature for SOHO that should be in win8 pro.

remoteFX ..... the could have tied this in with rt/surface, and helped you link home to your own cloud ... why not leverage it  

 

oh yes and the ability to buy a full non OEM,  version…

 hell vie been looking for non oem copies of windows server 2012 essentials which MS has a price listed for and cannot find it anywhere … though with what the OEM version is going for may as well just pick up a full copy of server