There’s adoption, but the numbers do not necessarily correlate with sales.
The post seemed to talk about the launch being a success, which i neither see from an adoption or financial standpoint, given that they were practically giving away licenses, they cost around 20-25% of the original Windows 7 price (including the rebate that was offered due to the fact they were planning to unbundle IE from Windows 7).
Of course i don’t know how the OEM pricing has been, but if a similar trend was present they have sold the same amount of licenses to a quarter of the price.
I’m not hating on Windows 8 here, I’m merely stating there’s a difference between licenses sold and trying to equate this result to the same success as Windows 7 had.
By using the super/taskbar for commonly used applications, jumplists for recent documents in said applications, and using the start menu for quick access to other applications.
If you still start/find applications the “old fashioned way”, Windows 8 is quite annoying, but otherwise the it’s a start “menu” you won’t see often, when you use it properly.
Licenses sold != Adoption anyway, i bought 3 licenses just because it were cheap, but I’ve yet to use the remaining 2.
Metro is pretty lacking overall, but as long as you used Windows 7 properly, Windows 8 is simply a more efficient Windows 7 with less license restrictions and more features.
Still kinda annoyed they had to remove the proper omnisearch like they had in Windows 7, but it’s a small complaint.
