stats question, do 90% of users hate win 8?

[Temmu]

ok, a flaming topic title - bear with these stats from mainstream, reliable sources:



overall os usage - cnet - july 1 Windows 8 overtakes Vista, burbling above 5 percent of the market | Microsoft - CNET News
vista - 4.62%
win 8 - 5.1%
xp - 37.17%
win 7 44.37%



os usage on steam (online gaming client) neowin, july 2 Windows 8 usage on Steam up to 13.02 percent in June - Neowin
win 7 - 66.26%
win 8 - 13.02%
vista - 7.97%
xp - 7.58%



usage, 1 year later - pcmag, july 1 - Windows 8 Tops 5 Percent, But Still Lagging | News & Opinion | PCMag.com
both win 8 & vista usage grew by a fraction of a percent last month! :lol:
win 8 behind mac os x (7.2%)
win 7 had grown to 14.46% in about the same time win 8 is now - a little over a year.



will 90% of users always hate win 8? - zdnet, march 11 - Will 90 percent of users always hate Windows 8? | ZDNet
who likes windows 8?
some self-proclaimed experts - 1%
some self-proclaimed enthusiasts - 9%
most regular users don't like it - 90%



what do you think? agree with the stats or think win 8 is a winner?

 

[Patrick]

I have a disc and license for Windows 8, but I have yet to mess with it. From what I see from posting over at MS Answers all the time, it seems to be a really great OS but there are quite a number of issues with the preview. I imagine as soon as it's released fully it will be right on par with Windows 7.

 

[Laxer]

I like W8 now.

It suffered from the same problem vista did in my opinion: Neither of them were out of the box ready like xp/7.

Now that I have W8 all set up and configured to my liking I prefer it over 7.

 

[Temmu]

laxer,
yes, i to this day despise vista for its bloat, slowness, uac-ness etc.

what is it about 8 that you prefer to 7?

 

[Temmu]

patrick,
am not sure about this because i have only used win 8, and not its preview, but i imagine 8 would be a more polished product than its preview.

 

[Wrench97]

He's talking about 8.1 the current beta preview > Meet Windows 8.1 Preview - Microsoft Windows

 

[Laxer]

laxer,
yes, i to this day despise vista for its bloat, slowness, uac-ness etc.

what is it about 8 that you prefer to 7?

The snappiness mainly, it is way more responsive than 7. The whole UI is faster, from booting to file management.

I haven't tried the 8.1 preview... It doesn't offer anything that interests me.

 

[Temmu]

thx, wrench97, from the current post, i'd've not got that.
ah, laxer, thx. ok, win 8 is faster than 7 - anyone else out there notice that?

 

[jcgriff2]

8 seems faster than 7; 7 is definitely faster than Vista.

All share the NT6 build.

6.0 - Vista
6.1 - Windows 7
6.2 - Windows 8
6.3 - Windows 8.1

 

[Temmu]

thanks for the comments so far, would love to hear from the rest of you!