Sony, Dell Win Big With Windows 8 Sales

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kowenicki said:

Soleron said:

1. Heavily discounted electronics always sell out on Black Friday by design.
2. No exact sales numbers except for "500 per MS store" which is only 15k units.
3. This is from a Forbes "sites" blog, which is done by some random person and is unedited by Forbes. He only has one source.
4. "We are going to wait for the Pro version of the Surface, as that will run on Intel Chips" - these are VERY informed consumers. How much of the public know, right now, that the Pro and the RT are differentiated by Intel chips and that they should wait for them? This retail survey has no methodology listed, it might just be talking to 3 people at this one store.
5. No evidence for Sony and Dell winning 'big', because they couldn't have made a profit on such deep discounts (unless MS was subsidising in which case it doesn't even count), and there are no sales or financial numbers listed. No statement from anyone except this analyst - nothing from MS, Sony or Dell.
6. Where is the comparison to previous Black Friday laptop sales? Is Windows 8 selling more or fewer laptops than an average year for PC sales? How about compared to the Win7 launch? Can we extrapolate Black Friday to the whole holiday period? Is Windows 8 something consumers are seeking out?

In conclusion: this article proves nothing.

I agree. It's a stretch to say anything based on Black Friday.  I think this coupled with the Microsoft news does tell us that the appetite for windows 8 is bigger than the Internet military would have us believe though.

I also agree, its pretty much impossible for windows to not do well. I think Vista was a great success despite the panning.