Windows 7 Rules PC Market in the UK

Microsoft has been trying its best to get people to buy the Windows 8 and let go off the previous versions of the operating system they have been using. In this regard, they have announced that 60 million copies of Windows 8 have already been sold since its release. The good news is that most of them have been sold with OEMs. The true success of an operating system gets a boost when it is sold with hardware rather than as a software upgrade on its own. However, this is not the case in the UK. Reports suggest that Microsoft has failed to promote Windows 8 in the UK to a level where people would be convinced to buy it. In the UK, Windows 7 remains the operating system of choice for PC users. Even people who are buying brand new PCs off the shelf want to use Windows 7 rather than opting for the newer version of the OS. The reports contradict what Microsoft has been trying to project and might prove to be the undoing of Windows 8 in the UK at least. According to the report, several PC vendors and makers in the UK have said that [...]

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