That indicates that msft is probably not as confident in sales, and has cut the price early to make it popular.  I think that makes sense though, bc of the radical direction the OS has went.  Either way, msft has less than average confidence this time around haha

I mainly posted this here because posts above this were wondering about iOS marketshare. Evern the article touched on smartphone marketshare which Barozi called attention to.

You may have intended your thread to be about PC only but you mentioned Microsoft Surface in your OP which competes in the Smartphones/Tablet market.

Uh, Windows has always been really massive, you make it sound like MS can't compete with them when they were never really in those markets to start with until recently.

oh yeah sorry man my bad my bad.

Yeah i think its really strange Iphone sells like hotcakes and seems way too low that number.

Looks like microsoft prints money once again.

Glad it's doing well.
I will upgrade my Nokia Lumia 900 to 920 in couple of months.
Not sure on the tablets - but would be cool to just have one.
why should I upgrade to win 8? I like win 7. What are the benefits that i can get for $40?

Best Buy said that the price of win 8 upgrade pro (currently at $70) will be
going up this Sunday to $199.
If you are going to upgrade, do it today.

That's probablky a "sell this sucker an upgrade" phrase. Here in Europe, prices are not going up until Feb 2013. I doubt it's any different elsewhere.

And if you have Win7, no there is no reason to upgrade to Win8 (if you have a standard PC).

The 7% is including all cell phones, smart and dumb alike. At least, that's the only way it makes any sense to me.

Apple has never had a monopoly in phones, smart or otherwise. In early years it was dwarfed by Symbian, now it's dwarfed by Android, but it's never stopped growing share, though growth has slowed. In select Western markets it may have captured 50% share at some point or another, but it's around 25-30% in most developed markets. It is capturing a far, far larger share of mobile profits than its competition, and it has a much stronger ecosystem (software, peripherals, services) than competing platforms, but Apple has never wore the marketshare crown in phones.

As for Windows 8 sales, I wouldn't draw too many conclusions at this point. As has been pointed out, Windows 8 upgrades were available for as little as $15. All these numbers suggest to me is that Windows has about 33% more early adopters than Mac OS. Launch weekend sales are going to rise as OS downloads become easier and software upgrades get cheaper. What really matters for Windows 8 is how those early adopters react to the OS and what IT managers think of it.

Dude, you just installed a fresh operating system.....

Wait a few weeks until your hd has clogged up again (as every MS operating system does) and your speed will be the same as before..

First tests with a few games actually show that Win8 runs about 3 percent slower than Win7.