PC Sales decline

[daveydave7]

Windows 8 doesn't appear to have kick started the market etc and the move towards tablets is gaining
Should we really be surprised though ? I'm old fashioned have a desktop pc upstairs and use a laptop for work/ browsing but I readily accept that having a PC and monitor set up is old hat now

[daveydave7]

The item I originally read is available on the net I didn't feel the need to link to it directly.
I too have a desktop and laptop and also a dedicated music playing mini PC. I can only really reiterate what others have said and it really does seem like PC's are being marginalised now in favour of tablets etc.
Whereas the netbook seemed to flop the I pad and it's similar ilk seem to have scored highly, one of the comments above about office PC's is spot on there really doesn't seem to be any need to have the latest Windows 8 PC in an office especially if you have a reasonably well speccd office machine running Windows 7.
I go in several offices and the amount of machines I see using XP with Office 2003 are really high so I guess in many places so long as it works why bother changing it.
I personally find Windows 8 ok to use but I can see the problems some will have with it

[daveydave7]

chris watton said:

I need my high-spec PC with 30" monitor for my work (work from home)

But as for my wife, I have bought laptops in the past and has never been too interested, aside from browsing the net. Since I bought her an iPad for her last birthday, she is never off it! I am a 'Hay Day widower' - she used to be a 'Rome Widow', so can't complain.

I think that bringing out W8 soon after W7 was silly, though - there's nothing wrong with 7.

I think that's a good point but I also think that MS had XP way for such a length of time that when they brought out Vista then Win 7 then 8 within a relatively short period of time it appeared odd to some.
I think as the article I referred to says that windows 8 was designed to kick start touch applications and seems to have failed by some great margin.

I cannot find the original article I looked at yesterday bit this one is very similar:

http://www.trustedreviews.com/news/pc-sales-experi...

[daveydave7]

Is it possible that this thread doesn't degenerate into a "I know best contest" as so many others unnecessarily do.
I'm just really interested in peoples opinions there is validity in every ones opinions. Incidentally is anyone still using Windows 2000 ? I came across my old install disc for it earlier while looking through my box of dvd's/ cd's. I would think it's pretty much finished now as surely its too insecure to use on the net etc

[daveydave7]

Rovinghawk said:

I asked some computer engineers' opinions on W8; the resounding response was "another Vista"

RH

I think Vista did considerable damage I remember getting it and using it and thought something was wrong with the PC it was so slowwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwww. Only when the SP came out did it improve. I can't imagine too many business users were impressed with it