Interesting article at infopackets. Apparently folks are showing a reluctance to upgrade to W8.
W8’s share of all Windows PC’s is about 2.5%, which was up from 1.9% in 12/2012. When RT is added, it becomes 2.6%.
Three months after Vista became available, it’s uptake rate was 3.3%.
Even worse, W8’s month by month growth has slowed significantly, per infopackets (based on an article in Computerworld.nz), although the week-to-week shows a very modest gain of 2.7% vs. 2.2 and 2.4%. To be fair, this could be part of a post Christmas slow down.
Still MS claims it sold 60 million W8 licenses. That doesn’t mean however, that all those licenses are currently being used on PCs.
When compared to Windows 7, the difference becomes even more glaring: After 3 months, W7 had captured 8.2% of all Windows PC’s. Here’s where it becomes interesting, because MS claims that
“the sales of W8 licenses have matched those of W7 at the same point.” - http://www.computerworld.com/s/article/9235477/Microsoft_Windows_8_passes_60M_licenses_sold
In the same breath they state that W8 computer availability was scarcer than they liked. Could this be part of the reason for the Dell deal I wrote of today?
This downward trend is apparently evident in England as well.
Please note that I couldn’t verify these numbers independently as Net Applications requires a paid subscription to do that.
Sources:
http://computerworld.co.nz/news.nsf/technology/windows-8s-usage-uptake-falls-further-behind-vistas
http://www.infopackets.com/news/business/microsoft/2013/20130205_uptake_rate_windows_8_slips_further_behind_vista.htm