






Windows 8 Upgarde
Microsoft is currently selling Windows 8 upgrades via pre-order.



HTC Windows Phone 8X



Sources: Microsoft, FT [analyst estimates]

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By MrBungle123 on 10/20/2012 12:11:34 AM , Rating: 2
I think you're not exactly right about Windows 8.

MS is making Win 8 what it is not so they can sell a bunch of OS licenses (yes thats part of it) but the main motivation is to push the Windows App Store. By forcing Metro on all the entire windows user base they get the "critical mass" of users necessary to get developers interested in the OS and making Apps so that there is a viable software ecosystem under the new Metro paradigm. That is why there is no choice, that is why the keep ignoring users, they know that if all they did was release something like Win RT that it would flop because it will have no software. So they cram Metro down your throat, devs make touch based Metro apps because there are millions of Win 8 PCs and MS gets a 30% cut of every app sold on their app store. This is a calculated risk, they're betting they can leverage the entire windows install base to get this off the ground and if it flops they probably won't lose the enterprise market with only one bad windows release (think Vista) and they can correct their course with Win 9 if it all goes south.

^^^ Gets it

