[AccessD] Windows 8

Yeah,  It puts the Mac (OS X PC at least) market into perspective that is for sure.  I would also guess that a the W8 numbers are made up of some early adopters and testers, but mainly folks who just buy from the Shop when their old PC dies and meekly accept whatever OS it comes with.  It is clear there is little enthusiasm for W8.x from majority of the PC customers.  I mean, even Vista has managed 3.1% share and that is a widely unloved OS.  Not that far behind W8.1 on 4.3%.   I would really love to see Enterprise/Business vs consumer in here.  I would bet that the W8 installs are widely biased towards the consumer market.

I would also suspect that much of the W8.1 number is cannibalising the W8.0 percentage, given it is a free update and does offer a better experience that W8.  Even so - I am surprised that those number are not reversed, more folks on 8.1 than 8.0.  To me, that adds support to my "mum and dads" theory on W8 user base.  These folks are large not tech savvy, what other explanation can there be to have a higher W8 vs W8.1 percentage?






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From: accessd-bounces at databaseadvisors.com [mailto:accessd-bounces at databaseadvisors.com] On Behalf Of Bill Benson
Sent: Wednesday, 5 March 2014 2:56 PM
To: Access Developers discussion and problem solving
Subject: Re: [AccessD] Windows 8

Darryl, I have to laugh that they bothered putting Win 98 in the table, just to show it at 0.00%. I appreciate your posting what you did because it surprised me 8 is as far along as it is, in just a couple years. Weird. I took the only win 8 machine I owned back to the store where I bought it. I wonder if sales are one way in that compilation?

;)

It was interesting to see Win 8/8+ has more market share than all Mac software combined.

I read that in Dec 2013 Win 7 had its biggest monthly market share gain in a year, continuing to rise even while MS presses manufacturers and the public to adopt 8.1. In my non industry expert guess it is due to the fact that sales of XP are not commercially available anymore maybe?
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