If it wasn't bad enough for for Windows 8.x already... :p
quote: Net Applications' June numbers put the combined user share of Windows 8 and 8.1 at 12.5% of the world's desktop and notebook systems, a one-tenth of a percentage point drop from May. Although Windows 8's growth had stalled for two straight months earlier this year, June was the first time the OS lost user share since the initial edition debuted in October 2012.
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While Windows 8 lost user share in June, Windows 7 gained another half of a percentage point to close the month with 50.6%. It was the fourth straight month that the 2009 operating system has gained ground, not really surprising since most experts have said that the recent boom in commercial computer sales has been because companies have hustled to dump XP for Windows 7, not the newer Windows 8.
http://www.computerworld.com/s/article/9249514/Windows_8_uptake_sags_flirts_with_flop
Personally, given that the main issue with Win8 is just a fricken UI, I think MS should've decoupled the UI from the OS long time ago, hereby giving the users the ability to use whatever they like in a fashion similar to Unix/Linux where users can choose from about a dozen or so shells.
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