greenmedic88 on 11 January 2013
| pokoko said: Well, I mean, of course it's going to be the second most used OS eventually. What does it have as competition? XP and Vista? Not much there to brag about, to be honest. It's not like people are running out and buying PCs because of Windows 8, it just happens to be what comes installed. What's more impressive is how many people are holding on to XP. |
That's probably more a tribute to those users' unwillingness or inability to upgrade their entire set up more than anything else. I highly doubt anyone is buying or building new PCs and downgrading the OS to XP. For one thing, VGA card driver support for new cards and the most current APIs is no longer officially supported. DX10 won't even run on XP without hacks.
And I'd also be inclined to agree that it's unlikely many people are buying PCs specifically for Windows 8... except for those who want touchscreen PCs.
