Matsuda Posted October 9, 2013 Share Posted October 9, 2013 Windows 8’s adoption rate remains slow, even though Microsoft is getting ready to launch the 8.1 OS update supposed to fix so many things with the product.But as far as Toshiba and its business sales are concerned, 99 percent of its sales are still going to Windows 7, with only a few people actually choosing Windows 8.Toshiba's B2B product marketing manager Cindy Zwerling told ZDNet in an interview that Windows 8 “remains some distant plan in the future,” explaining that Windows 8.1 indeed has some potential to boost sales of Microsoft’s modern platform.“Windows 7 is clearly the enterprise operating system at this time,” she said. “But there are pockets of the corporate population that use [detachable] tablets, and might be running Windows 8. But for your standard clamshell notebook? It's Windows 7. From a business perspective, I would say 99 percent of our sales are Windows 7.”Unsurprisingly, Windows 7 remains the number one operating system in the world, with market researchers pointing to a share of more than 45 percent. Windows 8 is still far behind with approximately 8 percent.Since Windows 7 proves to be a very popular choice right now, Microsoft is expected to face even more problems than with XP when its end-of-support approaches.Mainstream support for Windows 7 is set to end on January 13, 2015, while the extended support will come to an end on January 14, 2020.As you probably heard, Windows XP will be officially retired next year on April 8, with Microsoft now struggling to move users from its dying platform to either Windows 7 or Windows 8. More than 30 percent of computers worldwide are still running Windows XP right now, with only a few users expressing their desire to dump the OS and switch to a newer platform.Source Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
emerglines Posted October 9, 2013 Share Posted October 9, 2013 Lol! Good news :) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kn_andre Posted October 9, 2013 Share Posted October 9, 2013 Nice Article... So True !!!! Thanks for sharing and Cheers ... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mastershake Posted October 9, 2013 Share Posted October 9, 2013 8.1 is bogus also imo. they didnt bring the "start" button back... all they did was add a button that links to the tiles screen among other things they were supposed top be better. i have and ran 8.1 and imo still no where near as good as windows 7 was. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
eurobyn Posted October 9, 2013 Share Posted October 9, 2013 use start is back and think youre are using windows 7 with a startbutton.i see no problems. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MidnightDistortions Posted October 10, 2013 Share Posted October 10, 2013 Personally i think MS should focus on both W7 and the W8 platforms, if MS wants to retire W7 then they will have to release a more current version. Getting a new PC or even a new OS was meant to get a new or better system but with Windows 8 it's just a mess. Users won't even touch it. I've tried it and it's terrible. At least i had considered Vista an upgrade even though shortly after W7 came out. Even then the copy i had was bad as the key was bad i just ended up downloading a nice pack of all the different W7 versions. The copy i had was in 32 bit and since i had recently got a 64 bit system i wanted to use a 64 bit version anyway. If W7 fails then i am moving to Linux. I am tired of Windows problems. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ashish Posted October 11, 2013 Share Posted October 11, 2013 they can extend mainstream support for win 7 by a year or 2 like they had extended xp's mainstream support. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
realraydon Posted October 11, 2013 Share Posted October 11, 2013 Though i installed win 8 on my home computer, still have to use Start Menu to get my start button back. will Win 8.1 bring it back? if not, i am afraid that i have to stick on 7 for a few more days. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CGeek Posted October 11, 2013 Share Posted October 11, 2013 Good article. Thank you! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MidnightDistortions Posted October 11, 2013 Share Posted October 11, 2013 (edited) Though i installed win 8 on my home computer, still have to use Start Menu to get my start button back. will Win 8.1 bring it back? if not, i am afraid that i have to stick on 7 for a few more days. Windows 8.1 start button just leads back to the start screen, no start menu though without 3rd party software. Edited October 11, 2013 by MidnightDistortions Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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