As time passes more statistics come out about the #Windows8 software. It has just been revealed that the uptake of #Windows8 is much slower than the uptake from Windows 7. This isn’t a shock to me, nor to a lot of people. The question that does come up is – “was Windows 8 a failure?”
I have been a early adopter of Microsoft OSs for many years. As I have mentioned before I was one of the twelve people who bought #WindowsME. Windows 8 didn’t have as much as a bunk up as Windows 7 had. Windows ME didn’t have the bunk up Windows XP had.
Windows 98 was released off of the back of Windows 95 and both did very well – that was at the time the personal PC market was growing substantially.
Windows XP was released off the back of a terrible Windows ME and so there was a backlog of Windows 98 people keen to upgrade – given they had to wait so long for a decent OS.
The Vista OS promised everything and delivered nothing. It really wasn’t good. Windows 7 was the first decent upgrade for the XP users and came 8 years after XP was first released. That is a fair slug of people wanting and / ready to upgrade.
Windows 8 was off the back of Windows 7. Many people had upgraded to Windows 7 after sweating their XP assets and didn’t want to upgrade again so soon.
There is a tidal wave of the upgrade path of most Microsoft users. The tend to skip an OS and only upgrade when required.
Windows 8 is by far and away the best one they have produced for some time, with genuine new and exciting features (some of which has been removed in Windows 8.1 due to lack of appreciation!), however, the financial cycle, the poor “middle” operating systems mean that it is not doing very well on customer uptake. For most people it’s easier to hate it, than love it.