Ah Windows 8, the graphicaly dressed down windows 7 which sticks tablet in your face. Cuz tabluts arr teh fjusure! Least it runs a bit faster. Leats its not VISTA. Realy, the tablet stuff is annoying, but nowhere near as much of a gawddamn... (words) vista.
Seems like a great time for smaller OEMs to make a killing by offering Win7 machines though.
And I dont realy buy it that Win8 is causing that kind of shift in sales. Its likely the casual computer using consumers switching over to something easier to understand and carry around, as well as the desktop computers now going obsolete actualy still being functional with todays software.
It will probably stabalize in a while. Tablets are fun playthings, can do basic computery stuff, BUT are still complete rubbish when it comes to input speed and accuracy, typing and working with anything that needs to display large amouths of information at the time (excel, adobe acrobat, photoshop, whatnot). Not to mention the games on them are... well lets just say inherentely pretty limited.
There will be a pretty solid market laptops and desktop computers untill we invent telepathic interface.
faefrost said:
Small businesses have been particularly burned by MS's business practice decisions with Win 8. Often in a business of less than 20 employees a down or failed computer is something that must be dealt with very quickly. In the past they could easily simply dispatch someone down to the local Office Supply Store or Best Buy to grab an off the shelf PC to meat their needs. With Win 8 they cannot do this. The retailers are restricted to Win 8 only, no options. So the small business has to endure days of downtime waiting on a custom built/business class system from Dell or HP, etc. It's had a few of my small clients switching to Mac's.
And this is why we keep a number of our decomissioned XP machines around. Realy, dont throw all of those out.
