Unless the Redmond, Wash. technology company radically changes its
habits, it will throw
Windows 8 down a memory hole even before the
successor ships. Just like it made Vista persona non grata in its
official messaging in 2009, it will shove
Windows 8 so far into the
background that we'll need the Hubble telescope to find it.
That's no surprise: Not only has Microsoft acknowledged that its share
of all computing devices -- smartphones, tablets, personal computers --
now
hovers at 14%,
a far cry from its near monopoly as late as 2010, but the company
certainly understands how poorly
Windows 8 has performed even within the
small segment composed of desktop and notebook computers.
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