Windows 8 Sales 'Well Below' Projections For Microsoft

[davewolfgang]

no not true, i've always done it since win xp and the amount of customers i have to deal with would be in the hundreds in any given weeks. i'm not aloud to mention the place i work at (on facebook or where ever) but its the largest computer store chain in australia. though the most common problem is just virus and other software problems or a dead hdd. i very rarely get a customer that wants a refund because someone said (usually there 14 y/o kid) that omg vista is crap or some other idiotic remark but i usually at the time would just sell them a oem version of xp and be done with it, thats extremely rare.

though i would be surprised any of yous are actually working in any it industry since where all protected through anonymity of the Internet and can spout "i work at cern or something" but from my personal experience working at a large corporate environment in brisbane cbd and small computer stores it mostly a non issue but seems to be a unique thing toms hardware attracts since all other tech sites i visit get mostly happy users in the comments section.

anyway let the fud train depart the station, we all have girlfriends to attend and holidays to plan.

So you actually work with HOME users.

That explains a lot.

A lot of us here were in the Alpha and Beta (pre - open Beta) of every OS since 95, and told MS every chance we could for Win8 that Metro was crap and wouldn't work. NOW we do get to say - we told them so.

 

[azz156]

[citation][nom]davewolfgang[/nom]So you actually work with HOME users.That explains a lot. A lot of us here were in the Alpha and Beta (pre - open Beta) of every OS since 95, and told MS every chance we could for Win8 that Metro was crap and wouldn't work. NOW we do get to say - we told them so.[/citation]

well i voted with my wallet and bought 2 copies since i enjoy using it and the superior speed gains over win 7.

and no the company i was at before was the one in the cbd of brisbane was a large corporate environment that had well over 1000 to 4000 users on our network on any given day and to be honest no one there gave a dam what os was used since half of the ghost images i would use to deploy to a few hundred pcs was windows vista and the only reason we touched xp was because the company that was using the class room that day couldn't be arsed to update there programs. though my favorite moment working at that place i meet one of the lead developers of the opera web browser.

but anyway, from my experience with working in that sort of environment no one cares at all what os is being used so long as there precious programs work.

but if were flashing our creds from how early we used betas well then i started with xp in beta and i remember and maybe you do to how xp was received when it was released "rainbow coloured ugly bloat ware, stick with win 2000 etc" xp had a pretty rocky start and i didn't see it start to appear on peoples computers at lans till around 2003 around the time sp2 came out but even then people still hated it well up to 2005 but when vista was announced then everyone started to love it.

 

[azz156]

[citation][nom]belardo[/nom][/citation]

"Windows2000 = Finally, a serious OS from MS that works. Looks like XP but without the consumer colors."

you came across as somebody that knew his operating systems till you implied windows 2000 came after xp.

"WinXP SP0 = teehthing pains. SP1 = Good, SP2= Good enough. SP3 = if you got the resources."
and
"Vista = puke. Offered nothing over XP, memory defects."

when i remember using xp on my pc at the time (p3 450, 128 sd ram, voodoo 3) it ran like a sack of shit, it was like vista it really needed way more ram then was realistically available at the time since xp needed at least 512 to run decently and that was vistas only failing since it really needed 2 gig of ram or more to work. but with xp it was just unusable at the time so i had to format and reinstall 98 se

 

[azz156]

[citation][nom]belardo[/nom]WinXP SP0 = teehthing pains. SP1 = Good, SP2= Good enough. SP3 = if you got the resources.

Vista = puke. Offered nothing over XP, memory defects.
[/citation]


i like how you compared 2 os's with near identical rocky starts but gave xp a rose tinted view, though vistas only problems was shitty drivers from 3rd party companies and brand name computers selling xp era pcs with vista on them. for over a year i had to put 2 gig in all the pc's we sold in order for them to run, 512 to a gig isn't enough to run a modern os.

though you did miss 2 * let me correct the other one since i have lived though the first year of xp sp0

WinXP SP0 = complete puke go back to 98 se SP1 = still using 98 se, SP2= Good enough. but has a irritating firewall SP3 = if you got the resources.

Vista sp0 = fine if the 3rd party drivers work correctly and your pc has 2 gig + of ram, sp1 = better and was now getting proper support ,sp2 = if you have the ram but ran as good as win 7 at this point now

 

[saurus]

Everytime Microsoft try to force what they want onto consumers without listening this happens, eg Win ME, Vista, Zune and those damned awful early tablets which no-one wanted.

 

[Guest]

Yeah I could have told you this from the beginning.... It's confusing and unproductive and purposely crippled.

Don't try to blame it on lackluster hardware design and diversity Blame it on windows 8 it a piece of junk! no one wants it as it is... crippled.

 

[donsagrott]

> I predict that once PC users who think that they still need the windows "start button", discover that in windows 8 -

you DO NOT need the start button, really you dont!

( http://sospep.com/view/article?id=894 )


> Windows 8 sales will take off , the 40 million copies they sold in the first month, will just be a drop in the bucket, the windows blue sky is the limit !!!