Aaron Lee, Taipei; Joseph Tsai, DIGITIMES
[Monday 19 November 2012]
Demand for Microsoft's Windows 8 is unlikely to
start emerging until 2013 for the consumer market, while for the enterprise
market, demand is expected to come at an even later time and may not appear
until 2014, according to sources from the PC industry.
Although Microsoft is trying to present its
latest innovations in Windows 8 to response to consumers' fluctuating demand, it
turns out that consumers need more time to understand the new advantages that
the product provides and relatively delay acceptance for the new operating
system.
Although notebook brand vendors have a high
expectation for the year-end holidays this year, their order placement to the
upstream supply chain still shows they are cautious about the shipment
performance during the traditional peak season.
To prompt enterprises to adopt Windows 8,
Microsoft has recently noted that the company will stop providing support to
Windows XP in April, 2014 with most of the enterprises expected to turn to
Windows 7 and some to Windows 8 as stability and necessity are the major
considerations for enterprises to make a purchase.
Windows 8 may not start being a PC replacement
trend for enterprises until after 2014
Photo: Michael Lee, Digitimes file photo
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