Windows 8 Fails to Impress in Western Europe Too [Gartner]

Even though everything goes according to the plan when it comes to Windows 8, at least in Microsoft’s humble opinion, new statistics demonstrate that the operating system has once again failed to excite in Western Union.

PC sales in this part of the world dropped by 20.5 percent in the first quarter of 2013, according to research firm Gartner, and Windows 8 has made almost no difference.

“Wide availability of Windows 8-based PCs could not boost consumer PC purchases during the quarter. Although the new Metro-style user interface suits new form factors, users wonder about its suitability for traditional PCs — non-touchscreen desktops and notebooks,” Meike Escherich, principal research analyst at Gartner, said.

The desktop PC market fell 13.8 percent, while the mobile industry recorded a decline of 24.6 percent. HP continues to be the leader, as it currently holds 19.7 percent of the market, according to the same figures.


Windows 8 Fails to Impress in Western Europe Too [Gartner]
 
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Bill Dem
Windows 8 definitely contributed to the slide. The drastic change made the decision to abandon desktops much easier for many

If teenagers and college students actually dictated the direction of technology, we'd all be browsing this site on XBox consoles attached to a TV. We'd all have cameras mounted on our heads and be skateboarding to work every day. Only a teenager or college student would actually believe they're steering the future of technology. Their parents are the ones spending big money on technology. Technology follows the money.


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Tablets and smartphones. "The PC is dead. Long live the tablet!" said the pundits. Sure. If all you have is a hammer, then every problem must be made into a nail. Sadly, this does not work and business and power users have spoken: No! And, Lo! Along comes Windows 'Blue', which is just windows 8 with a similar desktop shell to the one nearly every Win8 user I know downloads to make Win8 nearly as useful as Win7
 

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Even though everything goes according to the plan when it comes to Windows 8, at least in Microsoft’s humble opinion, new statistics demonstrate that the operating system has once again failed to excite in Western Union.

PC sales in this part of the world dropped by 20.5 percent in the first quarter of 2013, according to research firm Gartner, and Windows 8 has made almost no difference.

“Wide availability of Windows 8-based PCs could not boost consumer PC purchases during the quarter. Although the new Metro-style user interface suits new form factors, users wonder about its suitability for traditional PCs — non-touchscreen desktops and notebooks,” Meike Escherich, principal research analyst at Gartner, said.

The desktop PC market fell 13.8 percent, while the mobile industry recorded a decline of 24.6 percent. HP continues to be the leader, as it currently holds 19.7 percent of the market, according to the same figures.


Windows 8 Fails to Impress in Western Europe Too [Gartner]

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IGNORE ANYTHING by Gartner -- the most stupid source of info on the planet -- I hope they go into Financial services -- so any STOCK they say will be no good or say SELL -- I'd IMMEDIATELY buy at a stroke.

Never in the history of computing as a so called "consultancy" wriiten so much FUD about anything to do with computing.

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If Gartner is a complete crock, then which analytics organisation in this world is actually reliable? I think you've said IDC is also a crock and there may also have been another one.
 

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I think I will go see if there is any more stuff out there that has anything really, really bad about Windows 8 that can be posted here on the EF so people can read how bad and nasty Windows 8 is, and always will be. . .Ha, Ha, Ha, Ha. Oh, forgot will need to post this as News.

Look out Google here I come.
 

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Excellent! But that shouldn't be too hard to find.
 

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Here is another look at M$ in Europe.

Europe to Microsoft: We hate Windows 8

Overall Acer was hit the worst, with a 36.8 percent drop in sales, with HP not far behind, at 31.7 percent. Dell fell 14.7 percent. Lenovo bucked the trend with a 7.2 percent increase in sales, while Apple eked out a slight gain at 0.8 percent growth. The sales of all other PC vendors dropped 18.7 percent.

Europe to Microsoft: We hate Windows 8 | Computerworld Blogs

Hmm... Lenovo will ship you a PC with Windows 7 on it instead of Windows 8.
 

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I think I will go see if there is any more stuff out there that has anything really, really bad about Windows 8 that can be posted here on the EF so people can read how bad and nasty Windows 8 is, and always will be. . .Ha, Ha, Ha, Ha. Oh, forgot will need to post this as News.

Look out Google here I come.

Who needs Google I don't.
 

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If Gartner is a complete crock, then which analytics organisation in this world is actually reliable? I think you've said IDC is also a crock and there may also have been another one.

Most of these agencies usually are rubbish -- you get on the whole a much better perspective if you read about people's experiences using windows on some Financial sites for example -- these are usually decent power users who on the whole know little about computers but definitely using them a lot in their day jobs etc so they have REAL USER experiences.

BTW wasn't it MOODY's who got the whole of the Financial forecasting Mega wrong -- they totally guessed wrong about the Banks and the "Sub Prime Slime" problems -- and they are meant to be a "Respected" ratings agency -- so if THESE people get it so horribly wrong why should we really believe ANY agency.

Another area that's often quoted - that Google is a deadly rival (or will be) to Ms. Perhaps the threat to Ms from Google is often overstated in the technical press.

Here's probably a more realistic assessment from "The Markets".

Google's I/O Gathering is Short On Hardware, Long On Innovation - TheStreet

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that Google is a deadly rival (or will be) to Ms

MS seem to think so.

They are whipping Bing. Taking bites out of ms office , and Android is everywhere.

Next stop cloud domination.
 

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I think if you take the reports by these analytics companies with a small grain of salt, then they can be useful. Remember, whether you believe in their figures or not, plenty of organisations, news sites etc do believe in them, so that means the majority.
 

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They're nothing but a bunch of smooth talking, pencil pushing, slide rule toting buffoons who have never implemented a major system much less support one post implementation. I'll never forget an admin manager type saying in a meeting when we were planning a major Oracle / PeopleSoft upgrade "Well, Gartner will tell you NT servers will outperform Unix". I ate the poor guy for breakfast and crapped him out by lunch. Corporate suits who get glassy eyed and allow themselves to be enamored by these clowns need to be put out to pasture. I fully agree about taking their reports with a grain of salt but way too many suits take their word as gospel.

By the way Ray, I love your viewpoints and posts. We're on the same wavelength.

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LOL! As soon as I saw Gartners in the title I knew Jimbo would be in there pouncing on this one. :D

I'm 100% with you. After Moody's downright lied to the American people and the world, I wouldn't waste my time on any one kind of these agencies. You're better off reading something from the real world. I just can't see how anyone could get it so wrong. Absolutely nothing gets my goat more than this. This affected me directly as an American in a building business.

Here you can read all about how banks, realtors, lawyers, and the richer are stealing middle-class Americans' equity in their houses. Mortgage foreclosures continuing galore. Now they're trying to tell us that real estate increased by 10% as of late. Whiptee doo! It's got a long way to go before it's back to where it was. And then the poor investors who invested in this crap!

Subprime Mortgage Crisis Explained

Subprime Mortgage Crisis Explained
The subprime mortgage crisis is explained by the use of credit default swaps to guarantee the risk of subprime mortgages. In addition, banks and hedge funds sold these mortgages to the secondary market, where they were repackaged and resold. Since no one felt they would be accountable for the risk, it created a bubble in the housing market. All was fine until housing prices started to decline, and borrowers defaulted on these unsustainable mortgages. Those who had invested in the massive mortgage market, starting with Bear Stearns and ending with many financial institutions throughout the world, found they weren't protected from the risk.
 

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