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Well, Windows 8 is gaining some steam here, it's surpassed ios and is the fifth most used platform behind vista by 1.54%. The Blue wave will help mature the new platform later this year, along with new and more touch enabled PCs, more and more users will be on the Windows 8.
 
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Yes, I am sure they will.

Their machines are getting old, breaking, etc.

They have to replace them with something.

Only a small percentage can afford a Mac - so it is inevitable.

The big price cuts help too.
 

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So that means Microsoft must have sold more than 400,000,000 Windows 8 licences
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Careful, when Cokie reads those few words he may have a heart attack.
 

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Ray8 said:
So that means Microsoft must have sold more than 400,000,000 Windows 8 licences, because that's the number of current iOS activations as of Sep 2012: Apple by the numbers: 84M iPads, 400M iOS devices, 350M iPods sold | Apple - CNET News.

And there have been more than 500,000,000 Android activations since Sep 2012: Google: 500 million Android devices activated | Mobile - CNET News

How did that old saying go? 'There are lies, damn lies and statistics.'
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That's just what the damn lie says. :geek:
 

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Although I assume that the stat must be regarding ios as the ipad, as that would make relevant sense among the other OS platforms. An iphone isn't in the same category as vista or mac os, but an ipad may be. I'd like to see a further breakdown of the overall OS marketshare as it is to full extrapolate on the results.
 

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No wonder, all those poor suckers that had to buy new systems are caught. If the hardware manufacturers would offer alternatives, it would look very differently.

Would be interesting to see how many licenses were sold an actually used that were not bundled with hardware. I bought one of the $40 goodies, but actually do not use it. It is only a study object.
 

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whs said:
No wonder, all those poor suckers that had to buy new systems are caught. If the hardware manufacturers would offer alternatives, it would look very differently.

Would be interesting to see how many licenses were sold an actually used that were not bundled with hardware. I bought one of the $40 goodies, but actually do not use it. It is only a study object.
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Actually, Lenovo is offering Windows 7 for their enterprise geared PCs.
 

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It was my understanding that any manufacturer has to give you Windows 7 when you ask for it. Two of my relatives did that successfully. But many Joe Publics don't know that and don't know what they are in for with Windows 8.
 

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whs said:
It was my understanding that any manufacturer has to give you Windows 7 when you ask for it. Two of my relatives did that successfully. But many Joe Publics don't know that and don't know what they are in for with Windows 8.
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If Joe Public bought a new PC, it's going to be a laptop more likely than not. If so, they have touch gesturing on ALL the touchpads that make interacting with Windows 8 better than a standard mouse.
 

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Actually, Lenovo is offering Windows 7 for their enterprise geared PCs.
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Yes, I believe they are doing that by default - they want to sell the things after all.

I understand the British pc manufacturers are doing similar now - they were asked so often for 7 - it is now the default.

Bit difficult for the big oems to recall all the consumer stock from around the world, change it to 7, change the packaging, etc, and ship it out again. The oems/retailers will just have to suffer the loss.

Unless MS is swallowing it for them - I don't know what they paying out in subsidy per unit.

They could go out on the street and pay the public to get 8 machines - cut out the middleman.

Don't worry Cokie - I am being a touch facetious for comedy effect.

Still, many a true word....
 

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SIW2 said:
Actually, Lenovo is offering Windows 7 for their enterprise geared PCs.
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Yes, I believe they are doing that by default - they want to sell the things after all.

I understand the British pc manufacturers are doing similar now - they were asked so often for 7 - it is now the default.

Bit difficult for the big oems to recall all the consumer stock from around the world, change it to 7, change the packaging, etc, and ship it out again. The oems/retailers will just have to suffer the loss.

Unless MS is swallowing it for them - I don't know what they paying out in subsidy per unit.

They could go out on the street and pay the public to get 8 machines - cut out the middleman.

Don't worry Cokie - I am being a touch facetious for comedy effect.

Still, many a true word....
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No, they're offering it as AN OPTION, not default. That's mostly meant for the enterprise that moved to 7 and don't want to deal with Windows 8 just yet.

That's actually part of the reason you just said that Windows 8 is doing iffy, at least to Microsoft. OEMs just rebranded 7 era laptops into something Windows 8 "certified" where certified just means touch gestures on the touch pad and the new Start key and the new stickers.
 

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whs said:
they have touch gesturing
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Yeah, gesturing is the right word.
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Which is enough to get started with Windows 8. Can you open the Charms bar with your mouse doing a two finger gesture? Or minimize all your windows with a three finger gesture? Or can you do a two finger gesture left to switch apps?

I think not.
 

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Coke Robot said:
whs said:
they have touch gesturing
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Yeah, gesturing is the right word.
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Which is enough to get started with Windows 8. Can you open the Charms bar with your mouse doing a two finger gesture? Or minimize all your windows with a three finger gesture? Or can you do a two finger gesture left to switch apps?

I think not.
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Coke, you don't understand. I don't want any charms bar or any finger gestures. I have lived with computers for over 50 years without that. You are part of a minute group of people that want that stuff. I hope MS can make a living on the revenue from your kind.
 

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Can you open the Charms bar with your mouse doing a two finger gesture?
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The fairy wand is a waste of time on a proper pc.

You are right about a 2 finger gesture being appropriate for it.
 

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No, they're offering it as AN OPTION, not default. That's mostly meant for the enterprise that moved to 7 and don't want to deal with Windows 8 just yet.
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Really?

You don't notch up 15 consecutive quarters of growth in a declining market without doing something right - so what's PC maker Lenovo doing right?

Lenovo is protecting enterprises from the waterboarding torture of the Microsoft Windows 8 operating system. The majority of Lenovo's enterprise shipments have Windows 7 installed...

...the machines are "downgraded" to Windows 7 by default. Of course, that's exactly what customers want - and Lenovo is reaping the benefit of listening to those customers.
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Lenovo: Windows 8 is so good, everyone wants Windows 7


In a time of universal deceit - telling the truth is a revolutionary act
 

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I like what Lenovo does. Unfortunately they have only vintage desktops - e.g. no third generation Intel CPUs, only second generation (in Germany). Dell is better at that.
 

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whs said:
Coke Robot said:
whs said:
Yeah, gesturing is the right word.
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Which is enough to get started with Windows 8. Can you open the Charms bar with your mouse doing a two finger gesture? Or minimize all your windows with a three finger gesture? Or can you do a two finger gesture left to switch apps?

I think not.
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Coke, you don't understand. I don't want any charms bar or any finger gestures. I have lived with computers for over 50 years without that. You are part of a minute group of people that want that stuff. I hope MS can make a living on the revenue from your kind.
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You're not understanding my point. You can't interact with Windows 8 with just a standard mouse.

And no, I'm not a minute group of people, I'm basically the next generation of PC users that won't be using a mouse soon. The next generation of PC users will never know what a mouse is. They will think of that as wired phones. That's just the way of progress whether it is liked or not.
 

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