Growth of Windows 8 at the end of year

Intel chief on departure Paul Otellini, admitted that Windows 8 is not going quite as good as they were, Intel and Microsoft hoped, because it is for the average user it needs some time for learning how to use it.


The biggest reason for this was seen in the unavailability of cheaper PCs with touch screens with Windows 8 which only makes sense. Due to the high costs of such computer customers prefer to opt for the classic screens for the same reason , then prefer to use earlier versions of Windows that are easier to work in such a circulation.

 

He believes that would soon appear notebooks with touch screen for $ 200, and for the third quarter announces thinner and lighter notebooks specialized for Windows 8 price of 500-600 U.S. dollars (valid for the U.S. market, of course).

 

Cheaper devices should be based on the Bay Trail chips - the next generation of Intel's Atom, and these mid-priced chips with the Haswell architecture.

Growth of Windows 8 at the end of year

2013-01-01

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Intel chief on departure Paul Otellini, admitted that Windows 8 is not going quite as good as they were, Intel and Microsoft hoped, because it is for the average user it needs some time for learning how to use it.