It’s a safe bet that there Steve Ballmer has a chair at the ready to throw at Jun Dong-soo who is the head of Samsung’s memory chip division. I say that because the latter had this to say about Windows 8:
‘The global PC industry is steadily shrinking despite the launch of Windows 8. I think the Windows 8 system is no better than the previous Windows Vista platform,’’ said Jun Dong-soo, president of Samsung’s memory chip division, in a meeting with reporters at the COEX InterContinental Hotel in Seoul, Friday.
If that wasn’t enough, he goes on to say this:
‘MS’s rollout of its Windows Surface tablet is seeing lackluster demand,” he said.
“Meanwhile, previous vigorous pitches by Intel and MS for thinner ultra-books simply failed and I believe that’s mostly because of the less-competitive Windows platform.’’
Ouch. It’s not the first time that Microsoft has had Windows 8 tossed under the bus by partners. The fact that it keeps happening seems to indicate that perhaps Windows 8 isn’t setting the world on fire.
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Samsung Exec Says Windows 8 “No Better Than Vista”
It’s a safe bet that there Steve Ballmer has a chair at the ready to throw at Jun Dong-soo who is the head of Samsung’s memory chip division. I say that because the latter had this to say about Windows 8:
‘The global PC industry is steadily shrinking despite the launch of Windows 8. I think the Windows 8 system is no better than the previous Windows Vista platform,’’ said Jun Dong-soo, president of Samsung’s memory chip division, in a meeting with reporters at the COEX InterContinental Hotel in Seoul, Friday.
If that wasn’t enough, he goes on to say this:
‘MS’s rollout of its Windows Surface tablet is seeing lackluster demand,” he said.
“Meanwhile, previous vigorous pitches by Intel and MS for thinner ultra-books simply failed and I believe that’s mostly because of the less-competitive Windows platform.’’
Ouch. It’s not the first time that Microsoft has had Windows 8 tossed under the bus by partners. The fact that it keeps happening seems to indicate that perhaps Windows 8 isn’t setting the world on fire.
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