Windows 8 Criticized for its Part in Ailing PC Growth
Analysts brands operating system as confusing.
Analysts have criticized Microsoft's latest operating system Windows 8 by calling it confusing and for playing its part in slow PC growth.
In a research note from analyst Chris Whitmore, the first reason Deutsche Bank attributed for decreasing its PC estimates this quarter was a "lackluster initial uptake of Windows 8." In addition to referring to the impact of "macro weakness" and the "fiscal cliff", he continues:
"As in past cycles we expect the introduction of a new Microsoft OS to spur an increase in PC demand. However...we believe Win8 will have a more muted impact than prior cycles for a several reasons: 1) Win8 reviews are mixed due to a confusing UI; 2) there is a lack of Enterprise interest in Window 8; 3) tablet form factor complicates positioning (Win8 vs. Windows RT), 4) continued substitution of PCs by iPads/tablets 4)."
Usability expert Jakob Nielsen said Windows 8's downfall is its "confusing UI", which is other known as the user interface. Topeka Capital Markets analyst Brian White added that Windows 8 orders have been weak. "Much lower than PC makers originally expected a few months ago."
Paul Thurrott, a technology blogger and Microsoft insider, had recently said that Windows 8 PC sales have fallen 'well below' Microsoft's projections.
Computerworld, who has tracked usage patterns of Windows 8 in the months prior to its launch and during its release, found that the OS "is being run by less than a fifth as many people as ran Windows 7 in the same months before its debut."
According to a survey, more than half of consumers haven't heard of Windows 8, with those who are aware of the operating system simply not interested in the platform.
With a $1.5 billion investment in marketing for Windows 8, four million units were sold in its first three days of availability.

Seriously MS, are you TRYING to kill windows???
The Microsoft hate is absurd. I LOVE my Lumia 920 and after 1 week, I love the speed and stability of windows 8 on the PC. It took me one week to go from Meh to Love.
Exactly.
My parents, for example, use the computer for checking email and surfing the web. At the moment they are using my old gaming PC I built back in 2002 for it. Now they have talked about ditching the computer all together and picking up a couple of iPads. Some people just simply do not need a desktop machine if they have a tablet and/or smartphone.
Me personally... not a fan of Windows 8 so far. But I'm trying to like it... I really am.
Just bothers me having a tablet interface on a machine that is not a tablet. I'm sure there are several other people that feel the same way I feel, but the fact of the matter that performance PC users are a minority. If the trend toward tablets continues... we might be the only traditional desktop users left.
the biggest problem isnt the metro UI. It is the App store itself, then another big one is Microsoft stupid decision not to into an Option to change back to startmenu, which cost them million of sales. There are plenty of mod like start8 can easily fix this prob, which prove that the startmenu is there, just Microsoft disable it. The beta win8 does have a registry method to re-enable the startmenu, but the release win8 remove it.
The guy inside who decide to completely remove the ability use startmenu in Microsoft need to get fired. Microsoft should just release service pack or patch to ENABLE this feature for the people who prefer the "legacy" UI.
Wrong.
Wrong, they should've completely done away with a legacy mode all together and made it so that all legacy apps run in a taskbar-less sandbox with having applications tabbed through like Metro apps in the switcher. They should've fully integrated all legacy features that kick back to the legacy desktop now (control panel, device manager, etc) as full-blown Metro features.... but no. Real progress would be steering everyone away from legacy and moving forward.
Windows 8 is broken, but not because of the way most people think it is. That's not going to stop me from using it, though, it's a pretty good OS.
Ok, but windows 8 is much cheeper, and in my country Microsoft offers 12 mounts free internet access + HSDPA modem for every new laptop that come preinstalled with windows 8. Windows 8 is almost free but people don't buyit.
I concur with you. The only thing I like about Win 8 is the speed and resource utilization. And the only reason I bought it was because it was available for the equivalent of $13 at the time I bought it, and of course Classic Shell and Start8. I hardly go out of the desktop into the Modern UI. Got it when it first came out and still trying hard to like the Modern interface, but still no love for it due to a non-touchscreen monitor sitting on my desk.
It reminds me of that stupid crap UI Packard Bell put on their computers 25 years ago. I don't remember what they called it. But it was nothing more than a shell on top of standard windows 3.1/3.11 (which was itself nothing more than a shell on top of DOS back then). It looked pretty on the department store floor model. But once you got it home you were disgusted with it in 20 minutes and wiped it off the hard drive.
This stupid metro UI is reminiscent of that stupid old Packard Bell garbage. It serves no purpose whatsoever on a standard minitower computer with full keyboard and mouse and multiple NON TOUCHSCREEN monitors two arms lengths away from your face. It is worthless. Sure, there are ways to get around it and you clowns like to say things like "you aren't smart enough to figure it out". But you are soooo missing the point. We dont' like it. We don't want it. It serves no useful purpose. And there is no way to totally get rid of it. THAT IS EXTREMELY AGGRAVATING AND MICROSOFT IS EXTREMELY INSULTING with their goddam stubbornness. They won't even *ALLOW* us the option of downgrading to win7 anymore ON OUR OWN COMPUTER! WHO THE HELL DO THEY THINK THEY ARE?
Let me explain something to you jackasses at MS. I DO NOT WORK FOR YOU! YOU WORK FOR ME! That is how capitalism works. You want to sell me a product then you better sell me what I WANT...not what you want. Until you figure that out you can stick your win8 up your *.
I seriously hope Linux takes off and puts MS in the grave after this crap they are pulling. But unfortunately there are way too many sheep willing to eat any crap sandwich anyone hands them.
and one more thing...MS isn't just bullying windows users, it appears they are now bullying linux users and hardware producers. Read this link
http://www.zdnet.com/blog/open-source/linus-torvalds-on-windows-8-uefi-and-fedora/11187