Windows 8 won't be as successful as its predecessor Windows 7, if pre-launch market share is an indicator of how well an operating system performs during its lifetime. Gregg Keizer's*comparison of pre-launch adoption rates of Windows 7 and Windows 8 shows the latter is only one-fifth of its predecessor. Windows 7's market share was 1.6 percent of the overall market one month before launch, while Windows 8's market share at the same time is only 0.3 percent. Is that an indicator that Windows 8 will become the new Vista*or merely caused by different pre-launch conditions? Windows 7's predecessor is Windows… [Continue Reading]

Source: BetaNews