[citation][nom]diddo[/nom]"Windows 8 usage rate is worse that Vista over the same period of time, A LOT worse."AGREE!W8 betas reached 1/5 of the downloads of W7 beta.W8 "sold" twice much as Vista in first days... but it is aiming a twice larger market than Vista, it was sold at 1/5 the cos of Vista and costs were 3 times Vista in marketing!It is definitely doing far worse than Vista that was greatest MS disaster before October 26 2012.[/citation]
I think it's worse than that as it was aiming at three markets. (Phone, tablet, Desktop) all with more or less the same OS.
On a tablet or a phone it should do fine if they don't have the problem the zune had in terms of not being "hip" or "catching on".
The desktop is where win8's it's biggest failure is tho, and I wouldn't be shocked to learn that it's pulling the whole OS down because of it.
I tryed using a win8 PC without a touchscreen at a store about a week ago for less than 5 mins and Metro just made no sense to me. It felt and looked like they just shoved some Xbox360 dashboard code and some random windows desktop code together.
I don't see a bright future for MS's future Desktop market down this path.