windows 8 sold 60 millions up today.

2 days ago, BitFlipper wrote

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If you have a Lumia 920 you can always use a real knife and prevent those friction burns. Don't try on an iPhone 5 though.

16 hours ago, cbae wrote

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Yeah, because 90 million units sold means that zero got into consumer hands. *rolls eyes*

60 million, and spare me the strawmen argument.  I'm obviously not saying no one is using Win8, just that using MS's numbers for shipped obviously isn't that accurate if we're seeing a historical decline in PC sales for pete's sake.  Duh.

Absolute sales disaster?  Perhaps not.  Meeting the goals of Win8?  Can hardly say that either.  It was to at least steam this tide, or ameliorate it with tablet sales.  Do you think Surface RT is flying off the shelves?

In related tablet news, Samsung is cancelling its ATIV RT tablet for the US market, as there's "no demand".

@NitzWalsh:

Here's a question to think about:

Are Microsoft causing the PC market to decline by producing an OS that is less PC-orientated (as many on this thread suppose), or is Microsoft making their OS less PC-orientated because they can tell that the PC market is in decline?

8 minutes ago, evildictait​or wrote

@NitzWalsh:

Here's a question to think about:

Are Microsoft causing the PC market to decline by producing an OS that is less PC-orientated (as many on this thread suppose), or is Microsoft making their OS less PC-orientated because they can tell that the PC market is in decline?

Possibly both.  It's hard to tell if their hedging their bets or trying to tap new customers (probably both though you don't want to ruin your cash cow and then fail in the market you hedged to). 

I strongly feel that with some small UI changes MS could cater to both the desktop and tablet market. 

60 million licenses just doesn't get you the revenue it used to.