14 DAY TRIAL // Windows 8 is an operating system that fails to excite, many analysts and high-profile executives involved in the hardware market claim, pointing to the confusion created by the lack of a Start button and the newly launched Start Screen.
On the other hand, Microsoft claims that everything is going according to plan, but the company basically refuses to provide any clear data to prove its point.
The software vendor today rolled out a statement to reveal that it’s very pleased with the Windows 8 adoption so far, indicating that more than 540,000 students and teachers have already deployed the operating system.
As usual, the Redmond-based giant also published a few statements to brag about Windows 8, just to make sure that everyone gets the right message: the new Windows contraption is selling like hot cakes.
“I think Windows 8 will be easier for those who are not as tech-savvy because of the intuitive user interface with touch capabilities. I love the fact that I can actually get real work done on my Windows 8 tablet,” Chief Information Officer Yvette Brown of Barry University, one of the schools that embraced Windows 8, was quoted as saying.
Still, Microsoft fails to provide any updated sales figures on the Windows 8 performance. A few months ago, Microsoft said that it had sold 60 million Windows 8 copies in just two months on the market, telling everyone that adoption of the new operating system was in line with the one experienced by Windows 7 after launch.
The difference is that Windows 7 was, is and will most likely remain the number one OS in the world, while Windows 8 is still far from at least overtaking the 11-year-old Windows XP.
The good news is that Blue is almost here, so Microsoft has every reason to be optimistic. Blue is expected to bring plenty of improvements to an otherwise modest platform that’s still expected to take off sometime this year.