After 15 months, Windows 8 has sold 100 million fewer copies than Windows 7 did

Re:After 15 months, Windows 8 has sold 100 million fewer cop... by jaredsohn on Thursday February 13, 2014 @09:35PM (#7236485)

>Vista was not a realistic option mainly due to a lack of drivers at release, much higher system requirements, and absurd pricing

Also, many people avoided Vista because it was the release where Microsoft made significant improvements to their security model by showing (by default) UAC prompts every time the user installed software or did many other actions.

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Re:After 15 months, Windows 8 has sold 100 million fewer cop... by EpicEng on Thursday February 13, 2014 @10:10PM (#7236628)

  "...Microsoft made significant improvements to their security model by showing (by default) UAC prompts..."

I wouldn't call nag prompts that people learned to reflexively say ok to a significant increase in security. I don't know of any hard data (couldn't find any), but anecdotally, I see people just pressing "Allow" without any thought because it comes up so often.

Yes, it's similar to the unix model, but people using unix probably have a much better idea of what security means and what the risks are going in.

EDIT: I just realized that you may have said that sarcastically...

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Re:After 15 months, Windows 8 has sold 100 million fewer cop... by jaredsohn on Thursday February 13, 2014 @10:21PM (#7236672)

No sarcasm intended; I should have said that Microsoft made significant changes to the security model in an attempt to improve their security. I personally haven't seen any hard data to suggest how effective it was.

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