 Permalink for comment 554478 RE: WTF? Wrong conclusion... by
ricegf on Thu 7th Mar 2013 14:40 UTC in reply to "WTF? Wrong
conclusion..." Member since:  Windows 8 is chugging along fine.
Meh, not so much.  Win 8 is "chugging along fine" only on the
desktop, where their fading monopoly still affects buying
decisions - though the last chart I saw showed Win 8 flatlining
in growth, dropping below the adoption rate of even the ill-
fated Vista -  In the overall personal computing market, Windows
share is falling rather quickly due to their inability to gain
any traction in mobile (  As an example, we bought our oldest
grandson a laptop for Christmas, and it came with Windows 8 (of
course). He was very excited, and went to play his favorite
flash game on the web.  It wouldn't work.  He brought it back to
me, and after some googling we discovered (working from memory
here) that Win 8 has *two* IEs, and only one runs flash. I
suspect one is the "touch" version and one the "desktop"
version? In any event, he was runn