Summary: The numbers are in and they don’t lie. Windows 8 market adoption numbers are well behind Microsoft’s greatest previous operating system failure, Vista.
Windows fans will whine, but Net Applications’ desktop operating systems numbers don’t lie. Windows 8’s pathetic user adoption numbers can’t even keep up with Vista’s lousy numbers.
The numbers speak for themselves. Vista, universally acknowledged as a failure, actually had significantly better adoption numbers than Windows 8. At similar points in their roll-outs, Vista had a desktop market share of 4.52% compared to Windows 8’s share of 2.67%. Underlining just how poorly Windows 8’s adoption has gone, Vista didn’t even have the advantage of holiday season sales to boost its numbers. Tablets–and not Surface RT tablets–were what people bought last December, not Windows 8 PCs.