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November 17, 2012

Relax, Windows 8 Hasn't Failed (Yet)

Joe Wilcox, Beta News


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Late this morning, Robert Johnson sent me a link to Paul Thurrott story "Windows 8 Sales Well Below Projections, Plenty of Blame to Go Around" -- "Uncertainty could turn Windows 8 into the next Vista". The lead sentence is frightening: "Sales of Windows 8 PCs are well below Microsoft’s internal projections and have been described inside the company as disappointing". Uh-oh.

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TAGGED: Microsoft, Windows 8

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