Linked by Thom Holwerda on Wed 6th Mar 2013 11:08 UTC
After ditching its Windows RT tablets from the US market, Samsung has now also confirmed to Heise.de it's going to stop selling them in Germany and several other European countries. The company cites lack of interest from consumers and confusion over what Windows RT is. Combined with the massive discounts Microsoft is now giving to OEMs, the writing is on the wall here: Windows 8 - specifically on tablets but also in general - is turning into a failure.
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RE: WTF? Wrong conclusion...
by tidux on Wed 6th Mar 2013 19:02
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There are more people and more computer users now than when Vista released, yet if you compare the two, Vista was more successful than Win8 at launch in terms of raw numbers sold, and even more so in market share. Right now Windows 8 is about as common as Linux among Steam users.
RE[2]: WTF? Wrong conclusion...
by Nelson on Wed 6th Mar 2013 23:02
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There are more people and more computer users now than when Vista released, yet if you compare the two, Vista was more successful than Win8 at launch in terms of raw numbers sold, and even more so in market share. Right now Windows 8 is about as common as Linux among Steam users.
Windows 8 on Steam has a 9% uptake. Compared to 2%ish for Linux.
I think you read their charts wrong.
RE: WTF? Wrong conclusion...
by ze_jerkface on Thu 7th Mar 2013 07:15
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Windows RT is a failure. Windows 8 is chugging along fine.
Windows 8 is chugging along on Microsoft's lock on sub $1000 laptops.
It's a failure in that they would have been better off never creating it. Windows 7 would be chugging along as well and without the need to spend billions of dollars on making it clear that Ballmer is a dumbass and Sinofsky was clueless. We Microsoft "partners" pointed this out last year at a cost of $0.
Edited 2013-03-07 07:17 UTC
RE: WTF? Wrong conclusion...
by ricegf on Thu 7th Mar 2013 14:40
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Windows 8 is chugging along fine.
Meh, not so much.
Win 8 is "chugging along fine" only on the desktop, where their fading monopoly still affects buying decisions - though the last chart I saw showed Win 8 flatlining in growth, dropping below the adoption rate of even the ill-fated Vista - http://www.infoworld.com/d/microsoft-windows/windows-8s-usage-uptak....
In the overall personal computing market, Windows share is falling rather quickly due to their inability to gain any traction in mobile (http://bgr.com/2013/03/06/windows-phone-shrinking-market-share-anal...).
As an example, we bought our oldest grandson a laptop for Christmas, and it came with Windows 8 (of course). He was very excited, and went to play his favorite flash game on the web.
It wouldn't work.
He brought it back to me, and after some googling we discovered (working from memory here) that Win 8 has *two* IEs, and only one runs flash. I suspect one is the "touch" version and one the "desktop" version? In any event, he was running the "wrong" IE, and we had to find the desktop and launch it from there.
I'm still amazed at the sheer stupidity of that.
Did I mention my other two grandchildren asked for and received an Android tablet and an iPod Touch for Christmas?
Based on the market reports, I just don't think they are atypical...
RE[2]: WTF? Wrong conclusion...
by Nelson on Thu 7th Mar 2013 21:41
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No, Windows RT is a failure. Windows 8 is chugging along fine.