The reason why Windows 8 is not warm

Microsoft's official website on Windows8 promotion

Beijing time on December 24th news, "New York Times" author pointed out that Microsoft tried to regain control through Windows 8, and maintain its core The franchise status can be said to be "failed" so far, because the Windows 8 startup period has been in a tepid situation. To sum up, there are two main reasons, which are derived from their own and alternative effects.

Acer's US regional president Emmanuel Fromont said that PC sales based on the Windows 8 operating system were not as expected, "this is a slow start."

Fu Ruomeng is not the only one in the industry who has confirmed that Windows 8 is not warm. At the end of November, ASUS Chief Financial Officer David Chang also revealed: “So far, the demand for Windows 8 is not a lot”.

Market research firm NPD has previously published a negative report on the status of Windows 8, analyst Steven · Stephen Baker pointed out: "I think everyone wants a better start" ;

To sum up, there are two major reasons why Windows 8's sales are lower than expected:

--- The design itself is a bit complicated: Windows 8 is a new experience, its steep learning curve scares Pour some consumers.

---Replacement impact: Consumers tend to buy iPad tablets and delay updating Windows PCs.

For this matter, Microsoft may say that it is too early to judge the performance of Windows 8. The company may also say that the data set used by NPD is incomplete. Of course, Microsoft may also say that compared with the performance of Windows 7, the upgrade performance of Windows 84,000 is obviously better. Although these are reasonable rebuttals, for Microsoft, the start of Windows 8 is really not a success.