Microsoft Responds to Critics with Newest Version of Windows 8
Posted on: 06/14/2013, by : DCT Solutions GroupIt’s no secret that Microsoft’s Windows 8 sales have been off to a slow start since its launch in October of 2012. What you might not know is that sales figures have been quietly increasing and are now on pace to, at the very least, equal the record-setting sales of Windows 7. Complaints about Windows 8 have been varied; from a confusing start screen to a limited number of apps, Windows 8 has been brutalized by critics and early users. Over the past eight months, however, Microsoft has been hard at work to fix glitches, address complaints, and ramp up their app offerings. If you are at all interested in developing apps for large sums of money, you may want to click on that last link to read about reports that Microsoft is offering up to $100,000 to developers who will bring apps to Windows 8. (They routinely pay developers up to $2,000 to develop apps for them.) The result, according to the experts at Tech Radar is a Windows 8 version that “shines.” While the reviewers, Mary Branscombe and Dan Grabham, were most impressed with using Windows 8 on a touchscreen device, they were equally impressed with the cloud integration and accessibility of frequently used apps on the desktop PC version as well. If you were hesitant to make the switch to Windows 8 before, you may want to give it a shot now. Check out an incredibly thorough review of Windows 8 here, including easy-to-follow installation instructions, overviews of modern UI and desktop interfaces and apps, and specific information on media, games, available apps, and upgraded security features.
