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disolitude on 05 December 2012
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HappySqurriel said:
disolitude said:

There has been a crapload of sales articles presenting both sides of the coin. Last I heard is that Windows 8 upgrades are at 40 million in 3 weeks which is beating Windows 7 upgrades. Microsoft hasn't shed any light on surface sales, not does it matter if the device sells 5 million or 500K units, because of reasons explained above.

I've seen this talk before, the infamous Microsoft Windows doom and gloom. Honestly Windows 8 launch reminds me of the movie Groundhog Day. It's exactly the same day microsoft is reliving with Windows 8 as they did with XP. And look how that turned out. 

Lastly, ths I fail to see this whole "it's premium product only if it sells" argument. Britney Spears sells a lot of records...  

Spend some time with a windows 8 tablet and look at the interface and its capabilities and then compare it to the competition to see why Windows 8 is a premium product. 


I have a good memory of the launches of Window's 95, 98, 2000/ME, XP, Vista, Windows 7 and now Windows 8 ...

Windows 95, 98, 2000, XP and Windows 7 were all embraced while Windows ME, Vista and Windows 8 were all poorly received by everyone except Microsoft "fanboys". Vista was not really Microsoft's fault because most of the problems were that necessary OS improvements changed how device drivers worked,  hardware manufacturers didn't update their drivers in a timely fashion, and users had a bad experience from this.

Windows ME and Windows 8 are both gigantic misteps though ...

Microsoft and Windows will survive, and I suspect in 2 years Windows 9 will scale back the metro interface, bring back large portions of the Windows 7 interface, and will see massive sales as people upgrade outdated hardware that they put off because they couldn't stand Windows 8.

I think your memory of some of these launches is a distant public consensus.

XP was massively rejected at first by businesses as it was a new 'unproven' kernel that had the DOS command prompt as an "app" and not as the backbone of the OS. Also it's childish, user friedly 'fisher-price" like interface wasn't appreciated by the PC loyalists.

This should refresh your memory - http://www.zdnet.com/windows-8-is-the-new-xp-7000006095/

A year after launch XP had 10% of the Windows marketshare. You really think Windows 8 will do worse?