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Last month I reported that in June Windows 8.x had gone into reverse gear, losing market share for the first time, and posed this question "Statistical anomaly or downward trend?" It's too early to call it a "trend" but anyone who expected the tiled OS to make a recovery in July will be disappointed by the latest set of figures. There's a striking difference this time around, too — both Windows 8 and 8.1 show drops in July. Ouch.
Are there any Soylents here who are running Windows 8 or 8.1? What version are you running and what, if any, addons have you applied? How has it affected your purchasing decision on buying new hardware?
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Windows 8.x Loses Market Share for Second Consecutive Month
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PARDON me, am I speaking ENGLISH?
(Score: 1) by steveg on Monday August 04 2014, @12:12AM
Buying a computer with Windows is always cheaper than buying the same machine without Windows. Yes, you still pay for that copy of Windows, but all the vendors of the crapware that the OEM installs are also *paying* extra to get that crap installed. Essentially they are subsidizing your copy of Windows and a bit more than that.
(Score: 2) by aristarchus on Monday August 04 2014, @11:27AM
It would be interesting to see actual numbers on this. Would make paying the Microsoft Tax less painful (even though moral objections would remain) if it was actually costing the OEMs money, and by extension their partners in crime, Microsoft. But the prices of computers without operating systems or with Linux pre-installed do not seem to be in line with the retail price the Microsoft operating system. No one knows, or no one can say, how much the OEMs pay for a license!
(Score: 2) by PizzaRollPlinkett on Monday August 04 2014, @12:48PM
I built my box many months ago, and don't remember the exact numbers. I wish I did. I picked out an Asus desktop PC because it was cheap and I have an Asus laptop I like. The Asus desktop was about $900. The same specs were over $1000 with Dell and HP. (HP surprised me by being the highest of all, since they're known for cheap PCs.) The Asus PC was out of stock everywhere because Haswell had just come out.
So I went over to Newegg and made a shopping cart of the parts I'd need to build the PC I wanted. I had to get an OEM copy of Windows 8 Pro. (Back then 8.1 didn't exist yet.) I also get best of breed parts like Gigabyte motherboards, and had to order a case because I didn't have any spares left. The specs I wanted cost about $800.
I was not expecting my build to be cheaper than an OEM, but the crapware and adware doesn't really reduce the cost of a PC.
All things being equal in my case. You can get a cheaper PC, of course, but I needed high-end specs to run things like Visual Studio. Running VS on my Asus laptop is ... painful.
(E-mail me if you want a pizza roll!)