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Bloomberg: Windows 8 Sales Were Weak, Market Has Shifted
December 27, 2012
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I build custom machines and had to recommend to all customers using desktop or notebook to not use Windows 8. The learning curve is to high and they removed the dedicated desktop and start button features. Everything is not only geared but labeled and instructed for touch screen. Peoples desktops keep asking them to swipe or touch a corner. It feels horrible to use with a mouse. This alone killed the launch of Win 8.
These are all real issues for a large number of Microsoft’s customers, Fed250. Microsoft must be responsible to the Start Button issues, no matter how much they disagree. They should at least make it an option. Even Samsung is doing so in its implementations!! If they do this, over time, they will make inroads into tablets. I’m still on the fence though about touch viability on the desktop (as are 95% of Windows 8 desktop users), but on tablets, touch is absolutely needed….
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