Well, it’s Monday again. No matter how hard we try, this things seems to come around about this time every week. So, to start your week, here are a few items of note for those interested in technology:
- Windows 8 Ho-Hum –The holiday shopping season – which seems to have already kicked off, may change things but a survey conducted by the Associated Press and GfK revealed the following:
- 52% of the 1,200 US Adults polled in this survey have never heard of Windows 8
- Adding insult to injury, 61% had no interest in buying a desktop/laptop with Windows 8
- And for a coup de grace, only 35% thought that Windows 8 was an improvement over Windows 7
- It was probably a substantial portion of that 35% who comprised the 31% of respondents who were actually interested in Microsoft’s Surface tablet.
- Read the full story on the PC Magazine website.
- No Help From the Business Sector –While Windows in the workplace has been a mainstay of Microsoft’s revenue stream, it looks like organisations will be slow to hop on the Windows 8 bandwagon. In October, TechRepublic asked its members to talk about their organisation’s deployment plans. This was a voluntary survey drawn from a pool of people who frequent a particular website so the results are most likely skewed to some degree. Nonetheless, the responses were eye-opening:
- 49.9 % of organisations have no plans in place to deploy Windows 8 but may do so at some future date.
- 23.8 % plan to skip Windows 8 entirely
- 11 % will deploy Windows 8 but have not set a target date
- 10.7 % plan to deploy Windows 8 sometime in the next 12 months
- 4.6 % are waiting until Service Pack 1 to deploy Windows 8
- Hardly a stampede to adopt Windows 8 early on. Read TechRepublic’s complete article.
- Some Hope for Surface – Opra Winfrey likes the Surface RT tablet saying that it feels like a Mercedes-Benz to her. It is worth noting that Opra gushed over the iPad in 2010 by saying “Words cannot describe what I feel for this magnificent device . . .” Opra – who has her own network, BTW – has added the Surface to her list of favourite things that will be featured in a 2-hour TV special scheduled on for Nov. 18th at 8:00 PM. There is no record of how Opra felt about the Microsoft Zune. Read PC Magazine’s full story on Opra’s endorsement.
That’s it for this morning. Have a good day!
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