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[Order_66]

Dot Matrix, on 04 March 2013 - 22:30, said:

Regardless of price, at this point, most sales will come from consumers buying new PCs, rather than separate at retail.

You mean part of that "60 million", right? /s

[MorganX]

Order_66, on 04 March 2013 - 22:49, said:

You mean part of that "60 million", right? /s

I think winning over resistant enthusiasts is more important right now. There's a reason MS is pressing forward fast. Surface sales are negligible, that's a reality. That 60 mil is still well below MS projections and that includes Tablet sales which of course, are nowhere near where MS would like them.

All the Windows 9/Blue chatter coming from MS so early in 8's lifecycle makes me happy. They may not fix everything, but they're fixing something.

[JHBrown]

ViperAFK, on 02 March 2013 - 19:43, said:

40 dollar deal is the only reason I upgraded, otherwise I would have stayed on win7.

This^

[Order_66]

Dot Matrix, on 04 March 2013 - 21:22, said:

I have 2 monitors, and I've never had issues hitting them. The mouse should catch, if you hit it right.

Is he "holding it wrong"? /s

[xWhiplash]

Dot Matrix, on 04 March 2013 - 22:43, said:

Nearly impossible? How is it I have no issues controlling my mouse to hit these corners? If it's "impossible" as you say, then I take it, it's "impossible" for you to hit anything else in the UI with the mouse? Because if you can hit a button or a control, than you can hit the corners. I call BS.

Um, not it is not. You have a visual cue for buttons and UI elements. You know where to click. I also have issues activating the hot corners every once and a while, even on one monitor.

[Dutchie64]

I stopped reading after "In the month of February, according to Net Applications,"...........

It's the same as "analists came to the conclusion" or alike.

We get it, everybody hates W8..........

One of the main reasons imho:
- no new W8 pc/laptops/tablets for sale atm. It's hard to find one of the announced hardware in the shops.
- the economy stupid!
- W7 is good enough for a lot of people for now. See previous reason.

[Ian William]

Dot Matrix, on 04 March 2013 - 21:22, said:

I have 2 monitors, and I've never had issues hitting them. The mouse should catch, if you hit it right.

Nathan Lineback also wrote:

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Back in the Windows 3.x and classic MacOS days there were many utilities that made use of "throwing" the mouse cursor to a corner of the screen. Because such an action lacks visibility, this was never popular and usually only used for invoking screen savers or advanced menus.

The whole concept of using corners falls flat on its face when viewing a desktop through something like a virtual machine window with seamless mouse integration, or through remote desktop software. The corners just don't exist, you have to aim the mouse over a few small pixels inside your window.

[Growled]

Dutchie64, on 05 March 2013 - 08:31, said:

One of the main reasons imho:
- no new W8 pc/laptops/tablets for sale atm. It's hard to find one of the announced hardware in the shops.
- the economy stupid!
- W7 is good enough for a lot of people for now. See previous reason.

I think the economy is usually overlooked but things are still somewhat bleak and money is still tight. People are hanging on to what they have, either xp or 7.