[BITList] w8 -- poor show

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oh, no..............................!

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Poor pre-launch showing plagues Windows 8
Now five times less likely to be on a PC than early-adoption benchmark set by Windows 7
By Gregg Keizer
October 1, 2012 11:43 AM ET3 Comments.
With just weeks before the public launch of Windows 8, users are five times less likely to be running the new OS than they were Windows 7 at the same point in its countdown, an analytics firm said today.

The newest numbers from California-based Net Applications portray a tepid reception so far for Windows 8.

Unlike post-launch numbers, the early returns from Net Applications are not contaminated with those new PCs that come with an operating system pre-loaded. Rather, users chose to install the previews and finished code of Windows 8 and its precursor, providing a picture of customer interest in the OS itself, not in the desire or need to acquire new hardware.

Just 0.33% of all computers running Windows during September relied on Windows 8, Net Applications' statistics showed Monday. That number represents 33 out of every 10,000 Windows machines.

At the end of September 2009, with essentially the same time remaining before its launch, Windows 7 accounted for 1.64% of all Windows PCs, or 164 out of 10,000: That's five times that of Windows 8 at its T-minus-one-month milestone.

Not only did Windows 8 stack up poorly against Windows 7 last month, but the gap between the two has widened. Three months ago Windows 8's share was one-fourth of Windows 7's. Since then the difference between them has increased, with Windows 8's September share only one-fifth of Windows 7.
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