Path: csiph.com!newsfeed.hal-mli.net!feeder3.hal-mli.net!newsfeed.hal-mli.net!feeder2.hal-mli.net!feeder.erje.net!eu.feeder.erje.net!newsfeed.fsmpi.rwth-aachen.de!news-1.dfn.de!news.dfn.de!fu-berlin.de!uni-berlin.de!individual.net!not-for-mail From: bbgruff Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.advocacy Subject: Re: PC sales plunge as Windows 8 flops Date: Thu, 11 Apr 2013 17:41:05 +0100 Lines: 25 Message-ID: References: Reply-To: bbgruff@yahoo.co.uk Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="ISO-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7Bit X-Trace: individual.net k48BuKguMtN1rZnV8d8RoQF2AfaRFPuu0gP4rUsf0e099jctpe Cancel-Lock: sha1:mI+T28IPny/c+YFBt8msPVvg+TA= User-Agent: KNode/4.8.5 Xref: csiph.com comp.os.linux.advocacy:172889 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