DavidR
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I was positive about win8 during the MS marketing (hype phase) blurb, in fact I was very likely to have had as my next desktop system OS and sidestep win7 on my desktop. But the more reviews I read the less positive I was and after the many adverse reviews after its release I really don’t know if I will ever get it, so I too will be waiting to see what win9 brings to the party.
I truly believe MS squandered the generally good position they had with win7 after the disastrous Vista version, but they completely threw that away. They should have built on that good position instead of completely diving off at a tangent.
By forcing this one size fits all OS primarily designed for touch screen interface, business users don’t want to have to retrain their staff and desktop users were/are in no rush to jump on this OS.
I suppose they hope that come April 2014 MS hope all of the XP (38.31% mrkt share) hold outs will adopt win8 (3.82% mrkt share), I think they are in for another surprise there too and I don’t think the limited change of win8.1 is going to change that much.