Observers and analysts had their doubts that Microsoft’s first tablet, the Surface would do well, but very few of them thought that the giant software maker’s bread and butter system Windows 8 would be a flop. The latest research study from NPD revealed that PCs powered by the latest edition of Windows have fallen to 21 percent in the last month or so against the same time during last year.
This proves to be bad news for the Washington based company, as it has not yet fully recovered from the less than stellar sales figures of the Surface tablet. Microsoft had launched this completely new operating system on October 22, 2012 and since then, sales of the Surface tablet, which is also powered by this latest OS have remained “almost nonexistent”, accounting for only 1 percent of Windows 8 sales.
Explaining this scenario an analyst of NPD, Stephen Baker told during an interview that, “It hasn’t made the market any worse, but it hasn’t stimulated things either. It hasn’t provided the impetus to sales everybody hoped for. As a result of these poor sales figures, Microsoft has already ordered its manufacturer to slash the number of Surface tablet units from four million to two million.
Let’s hope that Microsoft will be able to sell these two million Surface tablets because things are not going in their favour at the moment, as earlier CFO of Asus, David Chang has also admitted that Windows 8 is not doing well. His exact words were “demand for Windows 8 is not that good right now.”
Source: BusinessInsider
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