The PC desktop isn’t dead, but it’s not very profitable either – and Windows 8 isn’t helping PC sales. If you are going to buy a new computing device in 2013, chances are it’s going to be an Apple iPad, an inexpensive Android tablet, or a Chromebook. Tablet, smartphone, and desktop compe tition.
In addition, in an economy that’s still not moving forward quickly, who really wants to move from tried-and-true Windows 7 to new, expensive Windows 8 PCs? As Sterne Agee analyst Shaw Wu observed, the $500 to $1200 price tags slapped on Windows 8 hardware makes it “uncompetitive” in a world where people want iPads and Android tablets.ĥ.
Then, as now, the new operating system – Vista – was not better than the old operating system – XP – so very few people moved to it. We saw this happen before with Vista and XP. Gabe Newell, co-founder and managing director of video game company Valve, said it best: “Windows 8 is a catastrophe for everyone in the PC space.” He then started moving his Steam game empire to Linux. NET, Windows Communication Foundation (WCF) and Windows Presentation Foundation (WPF) expertise to work natively on Windows 8. I said all along programmers wouldn’t like throwing out their hard-won. Windows 8 is faster than Windows 7, but that’s about it – and that dual interface mess makes it slower for practical purposes. Windows 8 brought nothing innovative to the desktop.Ĭan you tell me one new thing that Windows 8 brought to the desktop that was truly innovative? Exciting? Engaging? I can’t. True, you can use a more traditional Windows interface, but you know what would have been a lot better? If Microsoft had just kept the Windows 7 Aero interface for the desktop version of Windows 8 and give up this idea that the Metro touch-friendly interface is for every device.Ģ. To quote a popularly held opinion, Metro is “awful.” It requires users to forget everything they ever learned about Windows and learn an entirely new way of doing things for no real reason. I said it before, I’ll say it again: Metro, or whatever you want to call it, may make an OK tablet interface, but it’s ugly and useless on the desktop. Metro, aka Modern: An ugly, useless interface. So, why has Windows 8 been such a failure? Here’s my list:ġ. "I predicted that Windows 8 would be dead on arrival last year, but it’s flopping even more than I thought it would be. That is truly laughable,įound a good article outlining just a few of the retardness of 8 Ok so done some research, windows is actually doing nearly twice as worse as vista did at this same point.
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