“With PC sales crashing and burning, it’s not surprising that several PC OEMs are still fuming about Windows 8, the operating system that has so far failed to reignite the PC industry,” Brad Reed reports for BGR.
“And now two unnamed OEM sources have told ZDNet that Microsoft and Windows 8 are primarily to blame for the accelerated decline in PC sales,” Reed reports, “with one source claiming that Windows 8 is ‘destroying’ the PC industry and another claiming that the new operating system has ‘handed over millions of customers to Apple.'”
Read more in the full article here.
MacDailyNews Take: ‘Tis iPhone, and its knockoffs, and iPad that are killing the Windows PC industry, not so much Microsoft’s latest ill-conceived debacle (although it certainly doesn’t hurt the cause).
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eh duh?
Windows 8 was such a dumb move. By making touch-based interaction an integral part of the user interface, Microsoft forces all PC makers (other than Apple) to produce more expensive PCs.
From back in the Windows 95 days, lower upfront cost has been the key selling point in the “Mac versus PC” competition. Before Steve Jobs brought Apple back with iMac, it got so bad that Macs only mattered to people who were already Apple fans. Most customers did not even consider a Mac as a viable choice for their next computer. And cost was a key factor.
Microsoft has taken away the lower cost advantage from PC makers. And it’s not just Mac versus PC now, it’s also iPad versus PC, which gives Apple the cost advantage. The tables have turned, and Microsoft should have avoided it. Microsoft should have continued to improve and optimize Windows 7, to allow PC makers to compete based on price (as they have for years), and developed a separate OS for tablets, based on further work on Windows Phone. In other words, copy what Apple did…
Yes, and they continue to crush the Apple stock until TIMMY AND APPLE ARE FORCED TO GIVE THE WORLD REAL FACTS ON TUESDAY!!!
Tim’s “real facts” haven’t satisfied wall street speculators in the past, why would they now?
Cook has to realize that the world isn’t content to sit and wait for data. Apple should have more frequent product introductions and/or significant press releases.
Sorry but yelling against WallStreet is like trying to reason with an elephant fart. It does no good and if the wind is wrong, you can be in trouble!
I’ll believe the negative Windows 8 bashing and destroying the PC market when I see it.
Everyone is so quick to jump to conclusions. Microsoft has been here before with Vista and that was supposed to have killed them.
Yet, Microsoft keeps posting record quarters so the analysts and media are full of it.
I’m a fanboy, and I hate when the media bashes Apple. I respect people in the software industry including Microsoft, even though I don’t like their crap. But we need competition and Microsoft is good competition for Apple.
You’re a M$ fanboy troll, don’t try to BS anyone, we know better.
I second that emotion. No thanks for the mind-fsck, anonymous coward ‘sfgh’. 😛
Shut up.
STFU. I post on here everyday, and all we use are Apple’s.
Did I mention to STFU? Ya…
Forget all that. I want to see something about how many Dells is Apple worth now. How come MDN isn’t charting the drop of Apple vs Dell? We saw the rise, now let’s see the fall. It should be rather interesting.
I think Dell is a (almost) privately held company now…
That’s not a done deal. Those stockholders who require their money back are NOT pleased with Michael Dell’s plans.
Here you go, Apple has $140 billion in the vault.
Dell is trying for $2 billion for a bail out.
Apple could bail out Dell 70 times.
Happy now?
can’t wait for Windows 9.
I hope that Windows 9 is called XP.
Too bad all these extra customers ain’t doing diddly-squat for the stock.
Not Apple’s fault!
Apple is proud enough of their desktop OS to rate it a 10. Microsoft knows better and rates theirs an 8.
1. Thanks for the laugh.
All you have to do is look at what Microsoft charges for Windows 8 and what Apple charges for OS X.
Metro was such a disaster even the name “metro” failed.
So of course, sell off your AAPL. I’m looking at $392. You can’t stop stupid.
Wall Street wants DIRE revenge for Apple being the best company on the planet.
Pay no attention Apple. Continue on with what got you here.
Oh and Microsoft: You stick to your course as well. The sooner you’re eliminated from the world’s suffering, the better.
who the hell are you? stop trolling and trying to get views to your blog by leap-frogging stories from MDN
isn’t that what MDN is too? just a reblogger with ads?
Typing on a 2.66 GHz Quad Core Mac Pro (4.1) that has served me well and is due a replacement. However, Apple has seen fit to give the Pro market the finger as they chase the iToi market.
Well, maybe Buffy and the gurlz in the sorority have moved on to the Samsung Notes and Galaxy phones and Biff and the boys over at the frat house have done the same. Maybe not. If so the wannabes and hangers on might just move on to the next thing.
Apple played the media game and chased the mass market, which is fine. At the same time they have given the serious market a great big eff u finger despite the fact that that market is the one that sustained Apple through the dark days and funded all the new stuff. That is not fine.
Well, I’m still waiting for the promised update to the Mac Pro along with lots of others and we are tired of lip service. Apple could have developed a proper update for the Mac Pro a long time ago but decided they didn’t need us. Maybe a bunch of the missing sales are people tired of buying the 5th iteration of something that was introed in 2005.
I couldn’t give a damn less about how thin the Macbook Air is, but care if I can swap a battery, upgrade the memory, burn a disc or hook up a FireWire peripheral without some proprietary overpriced adapter.
Apple needs to figure out if it wants to be a mas market purveyor of trinkets or wants to change the world with best in class products in the computing space- yes a smartphone and an iPad are both computing devices.
Cook needs to go- he lacks the vision to get the job done. Running operations and leading a company are not the same thing.
The media likes to build things up and then tear them down- guess where Apple is these days. Apple stuck out the 3rd digit at it’s Mac customers on the way up and karma can be a bitch.
Apple. Inc should rename itself Apple Computer, Inc and get it’s head out of it’s ass.
So Apple should focus on a market that’s collapsing. Right. Got it.
The computer market is not collapsing- sales are collapsing.
Sales may be collapsing because what is being offered is not significantly better than what was offered for sale 2-4 years ago. In Mac World Snow Leopard was the best release of Mac OS X in usability and stability. 10.7 & 10.8 are dumbed down shit loaded with crap for the social media crowd. In Windows World Windows 7 was the best release of Windows in terms of usability, stability and security.
The hardware has gotten better, but the software has regressed to serve the lowest common denominator.
Computer sales will improve when people are offered a more compelling computer experience. There is nothing at the Apple Store that is more compelling than the gear I currently have. When Apple ships something worth buying, I will open my wallet.
I think you need to go.. The latest Mac Pro (not the rubbish bin one) is in no way behind in any way, it uses the latest Xeon processors, you can get any spec that your wallet can handle. There is no faster computer available just other windows vendors with the same top spec xeons. The new rubbish bin mac, I don’t like the only 4 Ram slots but if you got the cash then you can have enough ram, I think this new mac pro will bring mac pro’s into a whole new market, the market that just wants the best of everything and uses none of its capability, it will only cost 4 iPhones! Thunderbolt is the way to go, plug that video card or avid box into your mac pro or your mac air, internal cards are not friendly, no one wants a computer full of HDD’s you wanna just plug in an array and take that array home with you or on the road.
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Ti sta bene Microsoft. Mi spiace ma dopo Vista mi hai perso. Figuriamoci con Windows 8: l’ho provato…ridicolo e penoso. Mah…
Steve Blamer is actually a humanoid (barely) robot sent back in time from the future Apple mothership to destroy Microsoft and correct the course of time.
It’s obvious!! ( to anyone who is not a complete nerd )
But it wasn’t Windows, didn’t Balmer blame the PC manufacturers……lol
Apple to Microsoft… “Thank you!, Gracias!, Merci!, Dankie!, Terima kasih!, Kiitos!, Obrigado!, Grazie!, Vielen Dank!…”
In my opinion, the features of Windows 8 should have been kept for Windows 9. Instead, 8 should have had a GUI that was more intuitively-connected to Win 7 to ease the transition.
e.g.
1 – boot to desktop
2 – start button that reveals the Metro interface (and a preference option to hide start button)
3 – have shutdown button via the start button
4 – have visual vues to show the charms bar (and a preferences option to turn off the visual cue)
5 – make app logout to be activated either a conventional Windows button at the top right corner AND, if on a tablet, a swipe or something better.
If these simple things were done – no doubt the interface would not have looked as nice, but the transition would have been easier – and then the full transition could be made in Windows 9 without such a large hue and cry.
In the end, bashing each companies OS is not going to solve anything. People will use the OS they are most comfortable with and what fits into their workflow and lifestyle. The computer market is a perfect example of the free markets at its best. The products are there and the consumer can buy whatever product they want. Apple & Microsoft along with various other PC makers market their products accordingly. Some consumer choose research while others don’t. Whatever company manufactures and markets the best products will be successful…..plain and simple!!!!
While trying to read the story, a big popup window covered the text and presented a great tablet complete with Windows 8 installed.
Oh the irony.
I was a strict Windows user before, but now I am super scared to buy windows again. Windows 8 is so defected and I’m having tons of problems with my homework, my gaming, my skype, and everyday work on my PC. All my friends are complaining of the same issue with windows 8, if I wanted a tablet, why would I buy a computer??? I would just go and buy a tablet!!! I am going to switch to Mac for once and give it a try.