I said it before, I'll say it again: Metro, or whatever you want to call it, may make an OK tablet interface, but it's ugly and useless on the desktop. Metro, aka Modern: An ugly, useless interface. So, why has Windows 8 been such a failure? Here's my list: 1.

I predicted that Windows 8 would be dead on arrival last year, but it's flopping even more than I thought it would be. How bad is that? Android 1.6, with is tiny 0.02% of the market, does make the list. , neither Windows 8 nor its cousins Windows RT and Windows Phone 8 even appear on NetApplication's mobile and tablet reports for February 2013. Now, in a market where NPD expects tablets to out sell notebooks by year's end The tablet and phone markets in 2007 were next to non-existent. Windows 8's failure is actually greater than it appears. Windows 8, and its relatives Windows Phone 8 and RT, make no impression at all in the smartphone and tablet markets. Tablets-and not Surface RT tablets-were what people bought last December, not Windows 8 PCs Underlining just how poorly Windows 8's adoption has gone, Vista didn't even have the advantage of holiday season sales to boost its numbers. At similar points in their roll-outs, Vista had a desktop market share of 4.52% compared to Windows 8's share of 2.67%. Vista, universally acknowledged as a failure, actually had significantly better adoption numbers than Windows 8. Windows 8 usage can't even keep up with Vista/s poor numbers. Windows 8's pathetic user adoption numbersĬan't even keep up with Vista's lousy numbers. Windows fans will whine, but Net Applications' desktop operating systems numbers don't lie.

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