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Lenovo was one of the biggest supporters of the Windows 8 launch in October as it introduced a number of new touchscreen-based notebooks, tablets and convertibles. It continued that support earlier this month by announcing a bunch of upcoming Windows 8 products at CES 2013, including the impressive looking 27 inch IdeaCentre Horizon Table PC all-in-one, which will be able to be laid flat to serve as a really big tablet (kind of).

To support Lenovo's bet on Windows 8, it looks like the company has managed to sell a lot of PCs in the fourth quarter of 2012. The China-based company announced today that for the last three months of the year, it had revenues of $9.4 billion, up 12 percent from the same period a year ago. Net profits came in at $205 million, up 34 percent from the same period a year ago.

Lenovo said it shipped 14.1 million PCs during the fourth quarter, up 7.6 percent. This is in contrast to the overall PC market, which saw shipments go down for the same quarter. CNet.com reports that during the company's conference call with analysts, Lenovo's chairman and CEO Yang Yuanqing was upbeat that Windows 8 will help the company continue to grow in the new year, saying, "New technologies like Windows 8, ultrabooks, and convertibles will drive new demand. 2013 will be better than 2012."

It just goes to show that if you have a company that makes products that people want to buy and use, you can still be successful even though the market contracted during the same time period. It also shows that the launch of Windows 8 was perhaps not as slow as certain companies, such as Acer, would lead people to believe.

http://www.neowin.net/news/lenovo-records-record-profits-thinks-windows-8-will-drive-pc-demand

I chose to not upgrade to W8. So does that make me part of the so-called rejection of W8?

No. Why not? Because I've never upgraded an OS and most people don't either. Most people don't use a new OS until they purchase a new computer, which people aren't doing at the rate that they used to thanks to smartphones and tablets.

As people start to look for new computers, they will look at W8 devices and buy them and the sales will continue to grow, particularly for those OEM's that have the sense to put touch based products on the shelves for consumers. W8 SHINES on touch devices, shock of shocks!!!

The concerted effort to bash W8 is nigh unprecedented to me, particularly against the start screen, as if all haters of Microsoft in every market they are in put forth their strongest efforts to see it fail. It's amazing in a way, but so disappointing that such an effort isn't being put into something more ... constructive.

Use Windows 8 on my desktop PC and I like it so far. Faster and snappier than Windows 7, and I actually prefer the new start screen over the start menu. It takes a little while to get used to though, I'll admit that.