Every Second Windows Counts

After frightening us with announcement of at least eight different version of Windows 8, latest news from Microsoft are a bit more sensible: there will be only four. It is doomed anyway.

Naming ARM version RT without "8" is smart move; it will help users to understand that this version is not really a "real" Windows 8 version. x86/64 editions are called 8 and 8 Pro and that's fine.

I don't know about Windows 8 Enterprise. Enterprises are always slow to upgrade. They wait until all software is upgraded to newer version of Windows, and then some more - until used version reaches end of life. If I was Microsoft, I would advertise Windows N Consumer and Windows N-1 Enterprise version. My enterprise still didn't upgrade to Windows 7. What about yours?

Forget the enterprise; would it become successful? Metro is a bold move by Microsoft, but at this point W8 doesn't look like a clear winner. For me, situation was obvious at very moment when it was announced. It will fail. People are too focused on new GUI and marketing and features that they forget the basic fact that remains from Windows 2000 onwards: every second Windows is a failure. "What?!", you say? Let facts talk for itself:

• 2000
• ME (hardware issues, slow, crashes)
• XP
• Vista (hardware and security issues, slower than XP, annoying User Account Control (UAC))
• 7
• 8 (let them surprise us)

I don't know what is causing this, but phenomenon exists and can be observed. You can safely skip Windows 8 knowing that it will flop and its successor will be huge success.

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