DailyTech - CES 2013: Industry Source -- More Than 3 Out of 4 Enthusiasts Reject Windows 8
"But the numbers are troubling. Despite Microsoft playing an interesting licensing sales gameselling a deluge of licenses to OEMs at a rate that would indicate Windows 8 to be outselling Windows 7, the usage numbers indicate that OEMs are only moving a fraction of those licenses. Windows 8 is only drawing around a tenth of the internet traffic Windows 7 did at a similar point in the adoption cycle; in fact Windows 8 trails Windows Vista in internet traffic."
one tenth the internet traffic of w7 sure stands out
Hi Doorules
One really needs to understand what these Statistics are really telling you.
When W7 came out things like smartphones were relatively new and for Internet, Chat, email, etc one ALWAYS used a laptop or desktop computer.
Now we use a variety of devices -- sometimes people can go for WEEKS without going near a PC. Their phones provide all the communication they need.
Not only that recent hardware is so much more powerful and reliable that it doesn't need upgrading or changing very often anymore -- and todays economic situation makes people really THINK if they NEED to upgrade before buying a new PC.
This of course alters the whole base line on which data should be presented. - For all GOOD reasons the numbers of PC's being sold today is falling and will continue to fall --although PC's for the foreseeable future won't be obsolete.
As a consequence any measure of W8 sales compared with W7 sales is totally inaccurate -- and also mis-leading.
W8 will make its numbers up in mobile devices (not recorded as separate Windows sales) so you can forget the PC count compared with W7.
Most "normal" casual users I've met actually quite like Windows 8 -- so it's not an inherent problem with Windows 8 itself.
These sort of users don't go to CES or hang around on Windows forums . The people who seem to hate W8 the most in my experience are power users or I.T service guys. The "Casual" user quite likes it from my own personal experiences.
Corporations also are just basically starting to get rid of XP by switching to W7 --no way will they do another major conversion any time soon either. W8 was too new for any of these large companies to switch to whereas W7 had been out for a few years and had proved is track record in stability.
There are too many Doom sayers it appears to me on this Forum -- OK if you really BELIEVE Ms is doomed to join those other great "Corporations in the Sky" but PLEASE BASE IT ON SENSIBLE AND VALID DATA.
Some of the analysis I've seen on these forums (both W8 and W7) is about as meaningful as appliying complex statistical formula to a set of data just containing ONE observation !!.
Cheers
jimbo