The problem with the marketing here I think has been the absolute focus on touch screen. Including on the traditional PC set up. I think MS overestimated the desire for touch screen PCs Tan people are looking at Win 8 adds and saying "not intereste, I like playing angry birds on the bus/train on my phone / tablet not when I'm home in my study. But that's what all the TV adds show these days, a pretty girl playing angry birds on her 22" touch screen PC. Only gamers buy PCs for games everyone else buys PCs for facebook, web browsing, youtube email and work type stuff. Those people might be interstted in a bit of minesweeper or solitaire but that's about it. Oh and gamers by PCs for high end games, not app games transferred from the mobile market.
So if Win 8 is underperforming then it's the marketing approach of MS that's at fault. There are loads of Win 8 machines at retailers so the product range is there.
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