“Windows 8 is doing significantly worse than Microsoft’s biggest failure, Windows Vista,” John Rizzo writes for MacWindows. “Five months after its debut last fall, Windows 8 has a 2.67% market share. Windows Vista had 4.52% market share at its 5-month mark. You can run Windows 8 on a Mac, but it seems few want to run it on a PC. And Windows Blue won’t change this.”
“The numbers are surprising when you consider that Windows Vista was the Edsel of tech, one of the most spectacular market failures of the last decade,” Rizzo writes. “But the lag behind Vista is even worse when you consider that Microsoft’s plan of running Windows 8 on multiple platform didn’t strengthen the OS. Instead, it is failing on multiple platforms.”
Rizzo writes, “Steven Vaughan-Nichols of ZDNet recently wrote: ‘Windows 8’s failure is actually greater than it appears. The tablet and phone markets in 2007 were next to non-existent. Now, in a market where NPD expects tablets to out sell notebooks by year’s end, neither Windows 8 nor its cousins Windows RT and Windows Phone 8 even appear on NetApplication’s mobile and tablet reports for February 2013. How bad is that? Android 1.6, with is tiny 0.02% of the market, does make the list.’ The Android 1.6 that Windows 8 hasn’t caught up to is 5 years old.”
Read more in the full article here.
MacDailyNews Take: Windows 8ista.
All is as it should be. Microsoft’s chickens have come home to roost, or roast. Here’s to the public at large not wanting to be fooled thrice.
Let the M$ hate circle jerk commence!! How many ignorant Microsoft and Windows 8 comments can you fit on one page?
Microsoft products have never made me trendy enough, and you need a degree to use Windows 8. What was Microsoft thinking, changing the UI like that. I’m too stupid to understand how it works, that’s why I love my Apple products. They follow KISS, keep it simple stupid.
I’m so glad about this, I really am. I quit using Windows professionally (as a platform for software development) about 6 years ago and have never looked back. Microsoft deserves all of this and more for their tactics during the ’90s.
Maybe people will make the jump to Windows 9 faster lol…
So all this begs the question: How many users are sticking with XP? I’ve got it on Parallels for the couple of odd Min apps that I use twice a year.
M$ only have a half way decent OS every other time. This time they purposely made 8 bad so that 9 will appeared ok.
Brilliant marketing 😉
With tablets projected to surpass desktop sales, its a terrible sign. MS gained traction against Apple in the 90’s by being the first with a less expensive “me too” version of the Mac, but Android beat it to the punch with a less expensive “me-too” version of the iPad. As a mater of fact, in this bad economy MS doesn’t even have a product that can compete with even Apple on price in the tablet market, much less Android. MS fell asleep at wheel, got lazy and too cozy in the belief their monopoly would last forever.
ZDNet seems to point out today in desperation “Latest OS share data shows Windows still dominating in PCs”. Uh, well yeah, for now. But what else would “dominate” on a PC anyways? Unfortunately at the 5 month mark Windows Vista had twice the market share Windows 8 does. And Windows Blue won’t do anything to change it (in fact probably make it worse eliminating even more of the older Windows comfort features). They say “slow adoption” but mean GLACIALLY slow adoption. They should have called it Windows Waterloo.
Sure, right on. Like Catholicism is dominant in Italy.
The one ‘minor’ difference I observed here is:
This time, people don’t even make a fuss about its fail. We saw outraged Vista users back then, where are all the outraged Win 8 users?
The outraged Win 8 users can’t figure out how to post their outrage.
Nailed it.
There aren’t enough of them to be outraged yet.
Windows 9, 10, 11, won’t really help… they never listen to their customers, ever, so this is what they get. The user experience is terrible. The few that like it, are so Windows inclined, they just don’t care.
My work computer is still running vista…… Could be worse could be windows 8.
Mine is running XP. And migration to Win 7 is planned for the next two years. By the time we migrate to 8 (an organisation with over 10,000 users), our desktop OS will be 15 years old! And those MS XP licenses are just as old. In other words, Microsoft last saw our money when Clinton was fresh out of office…
With over 10,000 users you guys have been on an enterprise volume licensing deal with yearly fees all this time.
Don’t ever think Uncle Balmer is not getting his blood money! 😉
To the tune of Go, Baby, Go: Go Balmer, Go!
Windows runs great……..only on a Mac as a second option.
Where are they? They were the early adopters, the geeks, the power users that got burnt by Vista. They upgraded to 7, looked at 8 and basically panned it. The voices that would be up in arms, have stayed with Windows 7.
Saisho wa, anta ga dame da, ni kai wa, ore ga baka da.
Turpaki sorsa?
15 minutes or so after this story was posted, every comment with a negative slant towards Microsloth as a single vote, with a single star. Does anyone think there’s a Microslut evangelist out there?
Oh, yeah, and the only comment that’s pro-Microshaft has 1 vote for 5 stars. Sense a theme?
Windows Ocho? More like Windows Oh No!
More like Yukko Oh No, the only person who has reaped millions off John’s death.
Microsoft has a knack for giving people what they don’t want.
Microsoft is stupid. You do not make 1 OS to run on multiple platforms. Not only it is still windows with a a different UI. Apple done their homework and done it the right way. You make a OS for computers and a separate one for mobil devices. Also you make them brand new from the ground up not a port. They need to get rid of Balmer and all the other backward thinkers at Microsoft. .
Actually, OS X and iOS share a common code base. Same kernel, same Core APIs, same network stack, yada, yada. The essential difference is in the UI.
=:~)
I think you are over simplifying the problem. They (MS) should keep Balmer, and maybe re-paint the lines in the parking lots at Redmond. That should be enuf for now…
As long as it takes.
I used Windows 8 briefly on a test machine.
I’d rather pull my finger nails out with pliers
Didn’t M$ spend one billion marketing Vista? Perhaps that money should have gone to R & D.
There was an “I’m a Mac” ad about that.
“Windows 8, The Animated Evolution” in the middle of the artical video is great. It is a fresh prospective of why W8 is useless.
I am a mobile computer tech, and I was working with a client yesterday with a new Dell Windows 8 laptop. She is a school administrator who uses a computer at work every day, so she knows how to use older versions of Windows, but while working on her Windows 8 machine last night, she asked me, “is it supposed to look like this? I can’t find anything!” She honestly didn’t know how to launch Microsoft Word, or find the Control Panel to adjust her touchpad settings. So I downloaded and installed Start8, a $5 program that makes Win8 look more like Win7, and all was well in the world again! I have installed Start8 for people 3 times in the last week, people are calling me in desperation because they don’t know how to use their new $500 Costco computers. That being said, in the last week I have also helped two clients setup new 13″ MBPrs, which have both been met with rave reviews and words of affection!
akamai, brudah, tanks
My good you only have stupids as a clients! One teacher that have problems to world with a simple S.O. Is not a good teacher, but someone that need a big common senso lesson! You simple make advertising to a software brand nothing more! Most be só stupids to have problems like that to operate on w8, the best S.O. Ever made by ‘Microsoft!
I prefer Windows 7, but bought Windows 8 for my personal Mac since it was only $40.
That’s what happens when you try to make an operating system do everything. It can’t do anything very good because it is trying to do everything. Making a tablet operating system for a computer is WRONG! So people don’t want it. Apple knew that would be the case and they were right.
And Windows Blue won’t change this.
From the comments and rumors I’m reading about Windows Blue, it will only make Windows 8 LESS attractive to potential users. Specifically, Windows Blue apparently kills the ability to run any third party Start menu application. VERY bad.
IOW: What’s killing Windows 8 continues to be the POS Metro interface, as well as Microsoft’s insistence that all users bow, scrape and submit themselves to its horribleness.
This is typical Microsoft user-abuse, one of the prime reasons I abandoned MS crapware back in 1993 and went Mac. There’s nothing new here except the shrillness of Microsoft’s insistence upon forcing users to do things the wrong way. Gag me.
:-Q*****
According to INtel windows 8 is on par sales wise with Windows 7. So who knows which is true. I do not like win 8 i think its ugly but then wait windows has always been ugly
Everyone here seems to want to bash windows 8. I actually like it. I like how user-friendly it is, regardless of what some of you people say, I also like the tiles that constantly update. There’s also SkyDrive, which allows me to access my computers as well as my wp7.8! It took me one day to figure out how to use windows 8. If you can’t figure it out then you must be an idiot!