I wonder if the still failing US economy has anything to do with the lackluster sales?

or that fact that peoples pc with windows 7 is still running strong and fast have no reason to buy something when something already works. and they dont advertise desktops with windows 8. they just been advertising the surface. stores ads that do advertise windows 8 computers have the screens showing the startscreen and not the desktop. so some people dont know there is still a desktop behind that startscreen when windows 95 came out alot of people bought it. they went to stores and they bought the cd or they bought a new computer because there window 3.1 computer could not run windows 95 windows 98 wasnt as big. people still went out to buy it to see whats it about. window 2000 not alot of people knew about it. mostly business used it. but I found out my games ran really fast in it compared to windows 98 on the same machine and was more stable. windows xp. people went out and bought it. some found out they needed more powerful hardware and bought new pc, some didnt. said they could live with 500mhz computer and 512mb ram. windows me...............windows who? windows vista. people saw it was different, and it was and went to stores and bought it. found out there windows 95 upgraded to windows xp machine could not run it or it looked bad. non aero basic thick themes eww. and ran slow due to lack of memory and oems was making xp machines but putting vista on them and they ran like crap. windows 7 yeah everyone learned there lesson with windows vista. so now everything runs great and dont have to install 3 service packs and 400 updates. omg windows 8 there is nothing wrong with my windows 7 machine. why do I need windows 8. and people that did buy it..... ehhhhhhhhhhhh why do I want this big ass menu screen on my monitor. what happened to my fancy transparent windows. lifeless login screen and everything looks like AOL made it. omg where my startmenu. and how the hell do I shut this thing down. why do words look blurry. why doesnt my game run fast. why why..... windows 8.1 why the hell is my mouse lagging now..........:bang: fact is windows 7 is great in everyday peoples eyes. and they dont see reason to upgrade.

My mouse is not lagging... Yes, no reason to upgrade - but since new PCs come with Windows 8, one would expect there to be a lot of sales from that alone.

Windows 7 being as good as it is and hardware being more than capable of servicing the common consumer's needs don't help 8. Then there are the smartphones, phablets, and tablets. The foolish design choices are another matter :P

hehe reminds me of XP and how long people kept hold of it

You mean STILL keeping it :P The other day on Dubai Metro some of the screens were with a Windows XP embedded edition reboot screen lol.

You mean STILL keeping it :P The other day on Dubai Metro some of the screens were with a Windows XP embedded edition reboot screen lol.

this is the problems many are facing as stores and fastfood use windows xp for POS. and these places have to make choices on buying new POS that can run windows 7 or test there POS systems. my work place has been using the same panasonic POS for over 10 years now. 4 years ago they switched from dos to windows xp. I dont think they are capable of running windows 7. they are already slow are lagging with xp

windows 8.1 why the hell is my mouse lagging now..........:bang:

Quoting myself from the other topic:

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/2908279 Once it's triggered by a executable, it's active system wide. An example: Coretemp.exe runs in systray always and starts with system boot Apply regedit fix to coretemp.exe Will be always applied system wide as long as coretemp.exe is active

It showed decent growth last August, September, and December. It was more or less flat last November and October. January was another flat month. It was up, but only barely, 0.07 points ahead of December.

Decent early growth is because people were "curious" to try it. Flat rate from November and on is because the market share that Windows 8 gains from new PC purchases, more or less equals the market share loss it has from frustrated Windows 8 owners that dump it for Windows 7.

Quoting myself from the other topic:

That is for raw input only, d3d input works just fine. Microsoft's registry editing solution to the problem is rather pretty un-convenient.