Soleron on 02 March 2013
| kowenicki said: Gabe will be crying fat baby tears. This is remotely surprising. It will just keep going up and up. |
Now that it's after the price rise and initial hype, I doubt people are seeking out a new PC FOR Windows 8.
It's just that gaming PC turnover is once every 4-5 years, let's say, so that's 50 months, so you'd expect ~2% of PCs to become Windows 8 every month.
All this is evidence of is that people don't object to Windows 8 so much as to seek out the few OEM PCs that are still Win7 and/or install 7 over their new 8 copy. But there is no demand, and /Windows/ sales are no faster than if they'd just kept 7.
Conclusion: It wasn't worth investing R&D in 8.
