Laptop Makers Say Windows 8/RT Tablets Are Hard to Sell

1) This piece is a sloppy "Here's one fact followed by several unproven & unfounded CONCLUSIONS.
2) Judging the sales of a new operating system and a new category of devices less than 3 months in seriously premature -- especially since few of the announced products have even been offered for sale yet.

There have been way too many reports showing that people have been awaiting a windows platform tablet before taking the plunge in to the tablet world. The iPod, iPhone, iPad are all, the same all run the same apps and, don't play well in a windows platform world. Android is simply just too fractured, no two devices work the same, just the UI from device to device is a huge mess. Let's not even get into the other sloppy mess in the across the android platform where updates from the manufactures is well in some cases nonexistent leaving huge hardware and, software bugs.

It's hard to sell something that doesn't exist! All that you have to do to see this is to visit any Microsoft store. There is plenty of inventory, but very little variety. I've been reading about all of these new Windows 8 devices for months, but they are nowhere to be found.

I'm getting tired of all of these tech cry babies complaining about Windows 8. I'm old enough to remember the wailing that occurred when Windows replaced DOS. You would have thought that it was the end of the world! Everybody eventually accepted the new system and got on with their lives. The same will happen with Windows 8.

I grew up in the pre-pc era and am self-taught. Although I am not an engineer, I am an entrepreneur and early-adopter, and I am energized by the thrill of learning a new system and using it in my work. I have Windows 8 on a non-touchscreen laptop and haven't had any problems. I am in the market for a Windows 8 Pro tablet and a high performance Windows 8 laptop...waiting on the Surface Pro and the HP XT Spectre Touchsmart. Too bad neither was available for the 2012 holiday buying season.