8 Billion-Dollar Mistakes Microsoft Made, Killing Windows 8 Leading To 8.1

Microsoft recently announced that the new name for its forthcoming OS refresh will not be Windows Blue but Windows 8.1.

First of all, as someone who has studied the Microsoft Windows division for the past 5 years, I can tell you that even the new name is a big deal.

It's a big deal because this is the first Microsoft Operating System that has needed a "refresh," to put it generously.

If you think about Windows Vista, it didn't get a refresh; it got shelved and replaced entirely by Windows 7. This is a very different and much more alarming development.

Second, it's a big deal because we have had enough time to be able to look at Windows 8 and objectively state, the experiment hasn't worked.

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