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| Four million people already upgraded to Windows 8 |
| By Thom Holwerda on 2012-10-30 18:10:09 |
| Steve Ballmer has just announced that in the first three days of being on sale, more than 4 million people have bought the Windows 8 upgrade. This doesn't count OEM installations or Microsoft's own Surface - just individual upgrades. Definitely a promising start for Windows 8, but then, these are most likely enthusiasts (I'm one of those four million), so we still don't know a whole lot. I'm patiently waiting for the response from regular consumers. |
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| WindowzzZ |
| By ParadoxUncreated on 2012-10-30 18:20:16 |
| How much latency did they add this time? More than the 200 uneccesary processes in XP? |
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| It's Another Windows 95!! |
| By benali72 on 2012-10-30 18:34:35 |
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Microsoft has long been expert at orchestrating the "sales stampede." I wouldn't put any credibility on any early sales figures they release. Remember how they convinced US television to show pictures of people waiting in line to buy Windows 95? They're still at it. |
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| I wouldn't have thought it |
| By jonoden on 2012-10-30 19:06:18 |
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But put me in the camp of sold on Win 8. Just upgraded to it on my gaming notebook (samsung gamer 7) and I've been pleasantly surprised that I am digging it so far. Haven't found anything broken yet after I upgraded a couple of sammy's utils to integrate with the hardware properly. Slowly learning the new keyboard shortcuts. I especially like that I don't have to be in Metro if I don't want to. It's definitely FAST. I'll keep trying to warm up to metro over time, I'm curiously intrigued because it's a new toy, but mostly indifferent to it at the moment with a touch of liking it. |
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| RE: It's Another Windows 95!! |
| By tylerdurden on 2012-10-30 20:01:32 |
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Microsoft is not orchestrating anything. They have a de facto monopoly on Desktop operating systems, so it should be no surprise a huge amount of users update to their latest offering. Wether you like it or not, millions of people are going to be using this OS. The windows ecosystem has a huge momentum (on the Desktop at least). |
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| RE: It's Another Windows 95!! |
| By quackalist on 2012-10-30 20:26:44 |
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Nor on any other 'sales figures'. Nonetheless, it's the de facto almost monopoly OS and they're really pushing it with the 'really cheap' upgrade download. I'd not be surprised if it sold well to those upgrading from XP/Vista and even those going legit from pirated windows. After all, it is Win 7 SP whatever and you can almost ignore the new UI bollocks. It'll sell like hotcakes even if the fundamentals incline towards Windows being doomed in the long run. I'll be buying one myself, soon as I can afford a new SSD to run it on. Edited 2012-10-30 20:28 UTC |
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| RE: I wouldn't have thought it |
| By lucas_maximus on 2012-10-30 21:08:08 |
| I have to say that while some of the bing apps are nice, but I haven't really used the Metro stuff much (the google maps app is nice). |
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| RE[2]: It's Another Windows 95!! |
| By grumpyoldman on 2012-10-30 21:12:46 |
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You are spot on with the price point of the update being an attractive draw. General consumers once they see the shiny new bauble for that price, it will be hard to resist. |
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| Fun with numbers |
| By jessesmith on 2012-10-30 21:48:24 |
| Selling four million of anything is impressive. Microsoft is apparently getting the word out and people are curious. That's cool. I want to point out though that four million people is, what, less than one half of a per cent of the Windows market? It's not like all of their customers are stampeding to get this version. |
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| Fun with numbers truly |
| By oiaohm on 2012-10-30 22:21:41 |
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This is also low income yield all these upgrades. Not like MS golden age when upgrade cost more than the full OEM version. |
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| RE[2]: It's Another Windows 95!! |
| By hoak on 2012-10-30 23:06:55 |
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Not Orchestrating anything? Really? You don't think the two billion $ U.S. Marketing campaign is 'orchestrating' anything? That's certainly more then was spent on developing the new OS by a factor of about 40:1. And will be a time expenditure of marketing to development of cash of about 4000:1. So, not 'orchestrating', this two billion $ U.S. is just 'good will spending'? Please... |
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