During my morning Web foraging, I came across this article I found rather interesting — so I wanted to share it with you:
Microsoft employees reportedly call Windows 8 ‘the new Vista’
We’ve argued in the past that it wouldn’t be fair to compare Windows 8 to Vista, in part because Vista was widely hated by many Windows users while Windows 8 is merely polarizing. In other words, even though Microsoft surely wishes more people liked Windows 8, it can at least take solace in the fact that the new platform has its share of passionate fans and advocates.
However, the well-connected Paul Thurrott says that’s not how Microsoft is internally looking at things. In fact, Thurrott says that Microsoft employees are internally referring to Windows 8 as “the new Vista,” which is a seeming admission that the platform has not achieved its goals of reigniting interest in PCs and needs some serious changes.
In a followup tweet, Thurrott explains that the view from within Microsoft is that Windows 8 has been at least as bad as Vista in terms of sales and market acceptance while adding that Vista might actually have sold better than Windows 8 when it was at this point in its life cycle…
Oops I may have posted my comments under the wrong article BUT everything I said about Windows 8, I’ll give MS Vista in ANY FORM the same thumbs DOWN!! Vista was the very worst of all versions!!
(BOOING MICROSOFT!)—they just DO NOT CARE ABOUT THEIR CUSTOMERS! I will NOT buy anything more from them!!
As I posted on your previous comment, you could also try UBUNTU: it is free and works very well on my old hardware!
Sales must be down with Windows 8. Just received an email that Hewlett Packard is offering Windows 7 again up until January 25.
I just bought a Hewlett Packard Windows 8.1 Touch Screen All-In-One Desktop, and I love it!
I hate hate hate windows 8. The email programme is dreadful. I can’t right click and add short cuts to the desktop, I can’t copy and paste, make that I can copy but can’t paste. I know I am a pensioner but this is the first operating system I can’t work out. Bring back XP that was the best of them all.
I just bought a new Desk Top Computer with Windows 8. I know it will take time to get use to it. I wished they had upgraded XP. Even on the new computer I have had problems with VerizonYahoo Mail. It keeps shutting me off. I am the process of changing my emails to rayjean2010@hotmail.com, (this works better) I am also on gmail, but have had problems with that one. Google contacted me and I think we got the problem solve. If that works I will get rid of VerizonYahoo.