dallas on 19 November 2012
| askel50 said: New windows sales have never been very frontloaded (I'm talking about the stand alone system). You need to make sure everything works fine before you change OS. Normally they push the system on the market with new PCs and notebooks, then people starts to appreciate it and upgrade. I think what may disappoint them are the sales of the new tablets. Maybe their hopes were too high for surface and Windows RT in general. But Windows RT is not Windows, you can't run windows software on RT, for most people this fact alone kills the purchase. On the other side the price of touch enabled notebooks ad tablets, with the real windows 8 inside, are still too high compared to the previous generation. And they are also hard to find. You have to wait until this stuff become more affordable before you can draw a conclusion. |
Msft not only made w8 significantly cheaper than previous OS but they are also advertising a lot more. If true, then it could point to a lack of confidence in their own product, but I don't see any viable alternative, msft has to adapt to the growth of tablets
Also, I don't see why msft was so self congratulatory the first week, citing historical sales, etc when they've had to cut windows prices to around half of what they were, and massively advertise over a billion dollars worth of it, a lot more money spent on that than ever before. Sure, if Sony did that to the vita and ps3 then their sales would be great, but it is horrible on the profitability.
