Lol mitch you are one funny guy. Yes MS should throw all their weight behind Modern UI. Sure it isn't perfect now but imagine if they 100% dropped support for anything before Windows 8 and the dektop portion of Windows 8. Then they could really make Modern UI take off. It actually appears traditional Windows are the root cause of the decline of PCs. We can clearly see that after the release of Windows 7 in October of 2009 that PCs have gone into free fall.
Windows 7 is actually destined for the history books as the destroyer of the desktop and the herald of a new age that could only be possible by showing that we must move to Modern UI. Windows 8 was released at -10%! Imagine how much better it would have done had it not carried a desktop or remotely resembled Windows 7! This is a serious problem indeed. I don't think I will get any "Windows" going forward unless it is Windows RT and they drop the desktop. Otherwise all Apple and Android because MS will die if they put any money or effort into an OS that is killing PCs.
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Edit: It is also worth noting the appearance of the iPad with its iOS representing the future Modern UI must also adopt.
You really are truly remarkable. Let me explain
how these things work:
When a new OS is announced, sales of hardware loaded with the old OS naturally slow because
why not just wait and get the new OS for free with your new PC? Then MS announces if you buy a PC now you will upgrade to Windows 8 for free when it is released. That's where you see the little sales bump. Then the beta comes out and people hate it and the bump goes away. Then the final version comes out and they didn't fix anything people hated in the beta and sales die.
That is what is happening in that graph. You interpret it that sales of PC's were already dying when Windows 8 was released therefore there is no cause and effect, but the release of a new OS does not begin affecting the marketplace only on the day it releases. The effect begins from the moment the new OS is announced.
** Another reason for the falloff of PC sales is the fact we were in the middle of a terrible recession, not the introduction of the iPad.
Windows 8 was supposed to revive PC sales. Despite MS claims of selling 60 million licenses, it obviously did nothing of the sort to end users. Since tablets only make up about 2.5% of the market for Windows 8 this is a serious problem. If Windows 8 does not drive PC sales and current PC owners are not buying licenses, where will the revenue come from after initial OEM sales are done?
If MS has to rely solely upon touch device sales for their OS they are truly and profoundly screwed. Right now Surface has about 7.5% of the tablet market and this is after the early adopter rush. If PC's are dead can MS pay the bills with 7.5% of the tablet market? MS MUST change Windows 8 to revive the PC market or they are finished. They must win over enterprise users or they are finished.
Everything about Windows 8 is bad from a marketing standpoint. It takes more steps to do pretty much anything, it is non-intuitive, some of it's "coolest new features", like animated tiles are completely useless, and to fully appreciate it you have to buy the most expensive equipment.
Google bought Motorola and Microsoft created Windows 8. Two big companies full of smart people doing very stupid things.