Most people in our recent debate over the future of Windows 8 thought that the operating system could be saved. I’m sure many people in 1491 thought that the Earth was flat, too. Win8-220If Windows 8 continues the way it has been, it will be the end of Windows.
The very day the debate came to an end, this headline appeared: IDC: Global PC shipments plunge in worst drop in a generation. Sure, a lot of that was due to the growth of tablets and smartphones and the rise of the cloud, but Windows 8 gets to take a lot of the blame too. After all, the debate wasn’t whether or not Windows 8 was any good. It’s not. The debate was over whether it could be saved.