The State of Windows 8
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The State of Windows 8
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Re: The State of Windows 8
#2Interesting, but I suspect that the reduction in crashes may simply be due to the fact that a majority of windows 8 installations are either on new computers or are clean installs. I will be curious to see how the "crashes/user" number trends over time.
Re: The State of Windows 8
#3If this is representative then sales of win8 are great.
About 700m units of win7 sold to date. From this win8 is a bit more than 1/25th the sales of win7 So about 28m units sold so far?
Re: The State of Windows 8
#4Interesting, but I suspect that the reduction in crashes may simply be due to the fact that a majority of windows 8 installations are either on new computers or are clean installs. I will be curious to see how the "crashes/user" number trends over time.
Another related factor is the difference in user demographics -- the early adopters may be more tech savvy.
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#5I'm confused, why is this relevant?
Where did they get this data? How do they get this data? How many people are they tracking? Who is Soluto? Their site doesn't make it clear at all. And I'm not going to watch a video to figure it out.
And clearly the only people using Soluto would be more tech-savvy users? Prove to me that this sample is representative of the entire population?
Re: The State of Windows 8
#6Interesting, but I suspect that the reduction in crashes may simply be due to the fact that a majority of windows 8 installations are either on new computers or are clean installs. I will be curious to see how the "crashes/user" number trends over time.
I'd be more worried about what's crashing - Windows 8's Explorer is at the top, which is not a good thing...
Re: The State of Windows 8
#7This is slightly inaccurate, for starters I don't know a single person with soluto nor have I ever heard of this before.
This is most likely geared towards a more tech savvy user, proving pretty much nothing as that is not the majority.
Re: The State of Windows 8
#8If this is representative then sales of win8 are great. About 700m units of win7 sold to date. From this win8 is a bit more than 1/25th the sales of win7 So about 28m units sold so far?
That matches the numbers that Ballmer of about 1 million units per day [1] and keeps them on track for 400 million by EOY 2013 [2].
1: http://www.infoworld.com/t/microsoft-windows/steve-ballmer-f... 2: http://www.forbes.com/sites/benzingainsights/2012/09/07/how-...
Re: The State of Windows 8
#9I'm confused, why is this relevant? Where did they get this data? How do they get this data? How many people are they tracking? Who is Soluto? Their site doesn't make it clear at all. And I'm not going to watch a video to figure it out. And clearly the only people using Soluto would be more tech-savvy users? Prove to me that this sample is representative of the entire population?
Scroll down on the home page. Talk about hidden below the fold...
// Edit: I wish they had more info. This looks like it could be REALLY slick for monitoring family computers health VS my current solution with LogMeIn.
Re: The State of Windows 8
#10Interesting, but I suspect that the reduction in crashes may simply be due to the fact that a majority of windows 8 installations are either on new computers or are clean installs. I will be curious to see how the "crashes/user" number trends over time.
I'd be more worried about what's crashing - Windows 8's Explorer is at the top, which is not a good thing...
This could come with the same concern. If a lot of these Windows 8 installs are new machines or clean installs there may not be as much third-party software installed so crashes that happen are more likely to occur in Windows components.
That said, the explorer crashes do worry me.