But would you buy the car if it performs well but yet the shifter is located under the seat causing you extra time to shift? A shift in convenience seems to be the biggest issue with Windows 8, which effects some more than others.
"extra time to shift"? If the shifter was under the seat I'd need to be triple jointed and grow muscles in different places (my fixer-upper is a Chrysler w/440 wedge + A-833 4-sp. Imagine trying to power shift a big block with your arm under the seat. Then imagine how much forward/rear/side vision you'd have in that position)
I'm using W7 and W8 day-to-day, and the
shift is more akin to going from my older manual cars (540i and the MOPAR's) to my fathers tiptronic paddle shift Audi. Both are functional, but moving between them if you heavily favour one over the other can give you pause when you first jump behind the wheel- precisely why I'm jumping in with almost two feet- but then, I've always enjoyed getting down to the nuts and bolts of any new toy, and as I reinstall my OS's on a 6 month basis (+ install a new customer build OS on average once a week) it doesn't actually seem that much of a chore to set up preferences, defaults, layout etc.
I actually find it amazing that a percentage of people deriding W8 because of the default UI think nothing of spending hours upon hours customizing their desktop with widgets and finding that all-important picture of an anatomically challenged anime/ improbably posed female model for their screen real estate...so, each to their own. As for W8-You either buy or don't. By the time Win7's support cycle runs out in 2020 I'm guessing that a few more OS editions and UI changes would have taken place, and the user probably wont be forced into adopting W8...that's just a guess on my part.
dividebyzero "MS's market share would seem to indicate thus."
NO it wouldn't. The CURRENT market share represents their initial piece of that pie. It is shrinking, everyday. 8 and Metro will ensure that it does not grow.
Keeping the Guest contribution up to its usual standard- excessive use of caps and BS.
Pulling opinion out of
your a thin air and proclaiming it fact only works when the
real info isn't front and centre.