They didn’t lose share. For the people that rightfully saw Metro as a painful dumb direction in Windows design language, they just stuck with Windows 7. Microsoft didn’t have upside they wanted, but they didn’t have the downside.
They tried to pump life into their mobile platform by throughing their desktop platform under the bus. Because they have zero competitive pressure, they attempt to do that with essentially zero downsides. Just like now they can make their OS little more than an advertising platform for the Microsoft Store and Microsoft services without real repurcussion.
jj4211@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Except how bad was it for Microsoft?
They didn’t lose share. For the people that rightfully saw Metro as a painful dumb direction in Windows design language, they just stuck with Windows 7. Microsoft didn’t have upside they wanted, but they didn’t have the downside.
They tried to pump life into their mobile platform by throughing their desktop platform under the bus. Because they have zero competitive pressure, they attempt to do that with essentially zero downsides. Just like now they can make their OS little more than an advertising platform for the Microsoft Store and Microsoft services without real repurcussion.
criss_cross@lemmy.world 2 months ago
I meant more it was a bad experience for the user. It clearly didn’t work as they scrapped it for 10.
Did they lose market share anything? Nah.
ShinkanTrain@lemmy.ml 2 months ago
They scraped most of it in 8.1 lmao