

Company expects another year of record sales, despite imminent successor incoming








Source: Bloomberg

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By nafhan on 5/23/2012 10:04:14 AM , Rating: 2
...yeah, you don't know what you're talking about, at all. For non-touch users, it's generally no better or worse than Windows 7. A little different, and not something I'd pay $100 to upgrade to from Win 7, but absolutely not a "total fail".

My predictions: on the PC side of things, Windows 8 will be less successful than Windows 7 or XP - mostly due to lack of enterprise adoption, consumers will be fine with it. For tablets: no idea; I think things could go either way.

By JediJeb on 5/23/2012 2:54:28 PM , Rating: 2
I can see it for people who use their computer for browsing and office apps, but for me in an industrial setting, it would mean trying to get vendors of expensive pieces of equipment to rewrite their software which usually doesn't happen. Our biggest vendor just now started to release software with their new equipment that is compatible with W7, up till then the best you could do is something with XP SP2, if you had SP3 the software would refuse to install. When you pay $150k for a piece of equipment the vendor can pretty much say you use whatever OS they wish. We have some equipment now that works perfectly, yet if we wish to move away from a WinNT OS we will need to spend another $100k to replace it with a new piece what is compatible with the software running on W7.

Rewriting operating systems just because someone can ever few years is great for OS vendors and may be acceptable in shops and homes that only use basic apps, but for those using specialized programs and hardware interfaces it can be a nightmare. They still make a lot of this equipment that uses COM ports and those are becoming difficult to find on a PC, especially when you need more than one.


