Comment Re:Who has the market share? (Score 1) 336
I wonder if Microsoft is learning the wrong lessons from their "good" versions. They're having a hell of a time getting people to leave them. In the future, if people hate the version they're on, they'll be much more likely to buy a new version in the hopes that it's better. Brilliant!
That will only work if you can get people onto the hated version first. Which works not so well with Windows 8, which seems stuck at 12.5% right now (including both 8.0 and 8.1).
That's the only think I can think of to fully explain Windows 8, and why even now they're refusing to admit that Metro apps are a steaming turd on top of an otherwise competent OS. The only idiots who like using those "apps" are the ones who would probably be better off with a tablet or smartphone instead of an actual desktop computer, for whom the actual power of a desktop is apparently wasted.
I think it was an attempt to use their dominance in the desktop market to force the users onto Metro. In the hope that said users would eventually buy more mobile devices with Windows Phone, because they are already familiar with he GUI. Now Windows Phone is making some gains, going from 0.45% to 2.49% over the last six months. But I doubt it is worth the poor acceptance for Windows 8.
Microsoft seems to bet that their dominance of the desktop market is a guaranteed thing. I'd love to see them proven wrong.