[recoiledsnake]

That doesn't take into account Black Friday sales which more and more people are waiting for before purchasing.

http://microsoft-news.com/black-friday-boosts-windows-8-net-...

"While the days leading up to Black Friday had Windows 8 running below 1% US net usage, Thanks Giving and Black Friday saw a large number of new Windows 8 PCs hitting the market, taking its US share above 2%. While the number reduced over the next week,indicating that Windows 8 users are mainly at home rather than at work, it returned to 2.12% yesterday, indicating the new level was real and not just an artefact of increased usage over the holiday break."

Also, Steam's hardware surveys shows that Windows 8 is at 5% of the userbase, despite's Gabe's comments about the "catastrophe".

http://winsupersite.com/windows-8/windows-8-thunders-past-ma...

The lesser said about Charlie's rants and non-sequitir arguments on SemiAccurate(which should be titled SemiWrong) the better. Just reading his previous articles makes me want to add that site to my /etc/hosts blacklist.

[propercoil]

but yet again it is compared to November last year (ppl waited for Black Friday then too), so the statement is valid.

you can also take into consideration the simple fact that each year there is a population growth to some degree, So naturally the figures need to be up. But that's macro economics i really don't know alot about, maybe someone else can explain?