Steve Ballmer: People Get Windows 8 and Like It

"a total of 40 million copies of the new OS had been sold in just one month."

It might be true. Who can check the validity of the statements made by the Microsoft's officials?

But it also might be true that those 40+ millions are the last copies of Windows 8 ever sold by Microsoft. Why? Because:

a) The market is over-saturated - including with pirated copies of the new OS;

b) The customers will bring back "the merchandise" (the DVD-ROM which contains the OS); and start filling Complaints to both Microsoft and The Federal Trade Commission - the American nation's consumer protection agency). They will bring it back after they will discover that they were "impaled". And how poorly it performs the new OS;

c) Educated people are waiting for Windows 9; or, at least, for Windows 8 SP 1;

d) The adoption rate of the "alternative OSs" is growing. I'm only thinking to Chrome OS, from Google - which is an excellent OS;

e) When React OS will be "ready for action", EVERYBODY will finally adopt it. (see details about this OS, here: http://www.reactos.org/en/index.html)

f) "Windows 8 is likely to Be the Safest Operating System Ever [Built]"

Really?

"Last week, Bitdefender released the results of a study which showed that without third-party security products, 15% of malware was able to bypass ALL Windows 8’s integrated defenses, even with Windows Defender active." (Softpedia)

g) OS X performs better than Windows 8. Here are the proofs:
http://www.infoworld.com/d/microsoft-windows/deathmatch-windows-8-vs-os-x-mountain-lion-200175

h) Microsoft is getting drunk with cold water:
"Mac OS X 10.8, called Mountain Lion, sold three million copies in its first four days, via downloads. So Windows 8 is selling far better than did Mountain Lion in their early days -- an average of 1.33 million per day, for Windows 8, versus 750,000 per day, for Mountain Lion. But the early sales comparisons between the two don't necessarily mean big sales and a great deal of enthusiasm for Windows 8. Windows has a far higher market share than does Mac OS X. Net Applications reports that Windows has a 91.7% market share, compared to a 7.2% market share for Mac OS X. That means that a far smaller PERCENTAGE of Windows users upgraded to Windows 8, in its first few days, than did Mac users who upgraded to Mountain Lion in its first few days." (Preston Gralla, "Computerworld")

i) Last, but not least, the adoption rate will depend on the consumers' intention to buy new hardware. And everyone knows that the selling of new PCs is stagnating (if not decreasing). See the stats, here:
http://www.statista.com/statistics/183419/forecast-of-global-sales-of-pcs-by-category/

j) You don't need a huge OS (with almost 100 million lines of code), in order to run a Tablet PC. If the main functions of such a device would be hardware implemented, MS and all the other "players" would be out of business.

Yeah: with an OS fitted into a ROM (memory), the consumer would have a much faster device. Faster, and also immune to ANY threats. Simply because it is impossible to write data in a ROM. (For example, The Amiga OS Kernel has no more than 9 (nine) Megabytes!!)

Once again, Microsoft is lying us. And is lying to itself.-