Windows 8 uptake slows, ditch-XP movement decelerates
Windows 8's user share in October climbed past the 10 per cent milestone for the first time since the launch of the radically-overhauled OS a year ago, an analytics company said Friday.
Windows 8's user share in October climbed past the 10 per cent milestone for the first time since the launch of the radically-overhauled OS a year ago, an analytics company said Friday.
Microsoft will probably report better than expected Windows revenue when it issues its third-quarter earnings numbers on Oct. 24, according to estimates of PC shipments this week by research firm IDC.
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Microsoft must be ready to accept, as has Apple, that it's better to cannibalize its own sales than to let competitors do it.
Gartner today downgraded its estimate of Windows' 18-month future, saying that Microsoft's platform will take a hit this year, then rebound in 2014 at a more muted pace than it forecast two months ago.
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Walmart has begun selling the Chromebook in 2,800 of its approximately 4,600 U.S. stores, expanding the reach of this still-on-the-margins platform. Staples too.
Nationwide Insurance is moving off Windows XP and the misery of an eight-minute boot-up time for some 40,000 users.
Hewlett-Packard executives say that the coming demise of Windows XP may do what Windows 8 could not, and that's boost PC sales significantly.
Hewlett-Packard has designed a new all-in-one desktop that's intended to appeal to IT departments as well as employees.
Dell says Windows 8 contributed to a decline in its PC-related revenue during the quarter that ended May 3.
Former Windows chief Stephen Sinofsky today defended Windows 8's performance in the market, saying, "It's hard for me to look at selling 100 million of something and not feeling great about it."
A boutique system builder has bucked the industry trend of slumping PC sales by continuing to focus on selling Windows 7 machines.
Dell last week again blamed Windows 8 for contributing to a decline in PC sales revenue during the quarter that ended May 3.