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RonB wrote:

> So, do you think Microsoft will grow a brain and change Windows 8, or will
> they continue in their course of stubborn stupidity?

Has Windows 8, per se, got much to do with it?

The landscape is changing - the move to tablets. BYOD, etc.

Microsoft was slow(!) to see that change, and missed the proverbial boat.
The only relevance of Windows 8 is that it was supposed to address that 
change, and to give Microsoft a toe-hold in the new (paricularly consumer) 
market.
It hasn't done so.

i.e.  This has lttle or nothing to do with Windows 8 being more or less 
popular than Windows 7, but rather everything to do with Microsoft not 
adapting to the changes in requirements that we are seeing.

To be fair, DFS said it first - "Microsoft is doomed"....

http://www.valuewalk.com/2013/04/microsoft-corporation-msft-downgraded-by-
goldman-sachs/
http://tinyurl.com/d95ac9l

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PC sales plunge as Windows 8 flops RonB <ronb02NOSPAM@gmail.com> - 2013-04-10 23:40 +0000
  Re: PC sales plunge as Windows 8 flops Snit <usenet@gallopinginsanity.com> - 2013-04-10 17:01 -0700
  Re: PC sales plunge as Windows 8 flops owl <owl@rooftop.invalid> - 2013-04-11 00:08 +0000
    Re: PC sales plunge as Windows 8 flops Snit <usenet@gallopinginsanity.com> - 2013-04-10 17:50 -0700
      Re: PC sales plunge as Windows 8 flops owl <owl@rooftop.invalid> - 2013-04-11 02:50 +0000
        Re: PC sales plunge as Windows 8 flops Snit <usenet@gallopinginsanity.com> - 2013-04-10 19:58 -0700
          Re: PC sales plunge as Windows 8 flops owl <owl@rooftop.invalid> - 2013-04-12 16:58 +0000
            Re: PC sales plunge as Windows 8 flops GreyCloud <mist@cumulus.com> - 2013-04-12 11:13 -0600
              Re: PC sales plunge as Windows 8 flops flatfish+++ <phlatphish@yahoo.com> - 2013-04-12 13:22 -0400
                Re: PC sales plunge as Windows 8 flops Snit <usenet@gallopinginsanity.com> - 2013-04-12 11:11 -0700
                Re: PC sales plunge as Windows 8 flops GreyCloud <mist@cumulus.com> - 2013-04-12 16:54 -0600
                Re: PC sales plunge as Windows 8 flops Snit <usenet@gallopinginsanity.com> - 2013-04-12 16:15 -0700
                Re: PC sales plunge as Windows 8 flops GreyCloud <mist@cumulus.com> - 2013-04-12 21:29 -0600
                Re: PC sales plunge as Windows 8 flops Snit <usenet@gallopinginsanity.com> - 2013-04-12 20:42 -0700
                Re: PC sales plunge as Windows 8 flops GreyCloud <mist@cumulus.com> - 2013-04-13 10:59 -0600
                Re: PC sales plunge as Windows 8 flops flatfish+++ <phlatphish@yahoo.com> - 2013-04-12 19:35 -0400
                Re: PC sales plunge as Windows 8 flops GreyCloud <mist@cumulus.com> - 2013-04-12 21:34 -0600
              Re: PC sales plunge as Windows 8 flops Snit <usenet@gallopinginsanity.com> - 2013-04-12 10:28 -0700
            Re: PC sales plunge as Windows 8 flops Snit <usenet@gallopinginsanity.com> - 2013-04-12 10:24 -0700
              Re: PC sales plunge as Windows 8 flops owl <owl@rooftop.invalid> - 2013-04-12 18:44 +0000
                Re: PC sales plunge as Windows 8 flops Snit <usenet@gallopinginsanity.com> - 2013-04-12 12:49 -0700
                Re: PC sales plunge as Windows 8 flops owl <owl@rooftop.invalid> - 2013-04-12 19:58 +0000
                Re: PC sales plunge as Windows 8 flops Snit <usenet@gallopinginsanity.com> - 2013-04-12 13:21 -0700
  Re: PC sales plunge as Windows 8 flops Chris Ahlstrom <OFeem1987@teleworm.us> - 2013-04-10 20:31 -0400
    Ahlstrom posts a very cult-like post Snit <usenet@gallopinginsanity.com> - 2013-04-10 17:49 -0700
      Re: Ahlstrom posts a very cult-like post flatfish+++ <phlatphish@yahoo.com> - 2013-04-11 05:19 -0400
    Re: PC sales plunge as Windows 8 flops RonB <ronb02NOSPAM@gmail.com> - 2013-04-11 02:59 +0000
      Re: PC sales plunge as Windows 8 flops RonB <ronb02NOSPAM@gmail.com> - 2013-04-11 03:00 +0000
      Re: PC sales plunge as Windows 8 flops Snit <usenet@gallopinginsanity.com> - 2013-04-10 20:37 -0700
        Re: PC sales plunge as Windows 8 flops "Ezekiel" <zeke@nosuchemail.com> - 2013-04-11 10:12 -0400
          Re: PC sales plunge as Windows 8 flops Snit <usenet@gallopinginsanity.com> - 2013-04-11 07:48 -0700
            Re: PC sales plunge as Windows 8 flops bbgruff <bbgruff@yahoo.co.uk> - 2013-04-11 17:31 +0100
              Re: PC sales plunge as Windows 8 flops Snit <usenet@gallopinginsanity.com> - 2013-04-11 09:43 -0700
                Re: PC sales plunge as Windows 8 flops bbgruff <bbgruff@yahoo.co.uk> - 2013-04-11 17:57 +0100
                Re: PC sales plunge as Windows 8 flops Snit <usenet@gallopinginsanity.com> - 2013-04-11 10:05 -0700
                Re: PC sales plunge as Windows 8 flops RonB <ronb02NOSPAM@gmail.com> - 2013-04-11 17:12 +0000
                RonB posts another cult-like response to back the herd Snit <usenet@gallopinginsanity.com> - 2013-04-11 10:16 -0700
                Re: PC sales plunge as Windows 8 flops Sinister Midget <fardblossom@gmail.com> - 2013-04-11 18:56 -0500
                Sinister Midget posts attacks to please the cult-like herd. Snit <usenet@gallopinginsanity.com> - 2013-04-11 17:13 -0700
              Re: PC sales plunge as Windows 8 flops RonB <ronb02NOSPAM@gmail.com> - 2013-04-11 17:10 +0000
                RonB posts another cult-like post in support of the herd Snit <usenet@gallopinginsanity.com> - 2013-04-11 10:15 -0700
                Re: PC sales plunge as Windows 8 flops chrisv <chrisv@nospam.invalid> - 2013-04-11 12:22 -0500
                Cult-like post by chrisv Snit <usenet@gallopinginsanity.com> - 2013-04-11 12:37 -0700
                Re: PC sales plunge as Windows 8 flops bbgruff <bbgruff@yahoo.co.uk> - 2013-04-11 19:01 +0100
                Re: PC sales plunge as Windows 8 flops RonB <ronb02NOSPAM@gmail.com> - 2013-04-11 18:01 +0000
                RonB posts cult-like post Snit <usenet@gallopinginsanity.com> - 2013-04-11 12:38 -0700
                Re: PC sales plunge as Windows 8 flops Snit <usenet@gallopinginsanity.com> - 2013-04-11 12:36 -0700
          I ( Jeff Relf, a HEAVY PC user/programmer ) LOVE Windows 8.  Jeff-Relf.Me <@.> - 2013-04-11 08:50 -0700
      Re: PC sales plunge as Windows 8 flops chrisv <chrisv@nospam.invalid> - 2013-04-11 08:20 -0500
        Re: PC sales plunge as Windows 8 flops chrisv <chrisv@nospam.invalid> - 2013-04-11 11:00 -0500
          Re: Imaginary "BSEE" chrisv- turdv keeps talking to himself all the time, nobody gives a rat's ass about his rants. "Cola Zealot" <Cola_Zealot@fuckoff.com> - 2013-04-11 21:34 +0200
          Re: PC sales plunge as Windows 8 flops Gregory Shearman <ZekeGregory@netscape.net> - 2013-04-12 05:44 +0000
    Re: PC sales plunge as Windows 8 flops Hadron<hadronquark@gmail.com> - 2013-04-11 09:20 +0100
  Re: PC sales plunge as Windows 8 flops chrisv <chrisv@nospam.invalid> - 2013-04-11 08:27 -0500
    Re: Imaginary "BSEE" chrisv - turdv plunged as a turd into the sewer where it belongs. "Cola Zealot" <Cola_Zealot@fuckoff.com> - 2013-04-11 21:36 +0200
  Re: PC sales plunge as Windows 8 flops bbgruff <bbgruff@yahoo.co.uk> - 2013-04-11 17:41 +0100
    Re: PC sales plunge as Windows 8 flops chrisv <chrisv@nospam.invalid> - 2013-04-11 12:08 -0500
    Re: PC sales plunge as Windows 8 flops RonB <ronb02NOSPAM@gmail.com> - 2013-04-11 17:09 +0000
    Re: PC sales plunge as Windows 8 flops Sinister Midget <fardblossom@gmail.com> - 2013-04-11 19:21 -0500
      Sinister Midget posts nonsense to please the herd Snit <usenet@gallopinginsanity.com> - 2013-04-11 18:52 -0700
      Re: PC sales plunge as Windows 8 flops GreyCloud <mist@cumulus.com> - 2013-04-11 20:55 -0600
      Re: PC sales plunge as Windows 8 flops chrisv <chrisv@nospam.invalid> - 2013-04-12 06:55 -0500
  Re: PC sales plunge as Windows 8 flops 7 <email_at_www_at_enemygadgets_dot_com@enemygadgets.com> - 2013-04-11 23:58 +0100

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