Intel, you want people to buy your product, give them a reason to buy your new product.
Dumb people will blame Windows 8, but real people with half a brain, real people using computers for useful purposes, they don't buy new computers just to get new operating systems.
When Windows 10 comes out, people will install it on their Windows 7 computers, since those computers will be powerful enough to run it.
You want people to buy your product, you must give them a reason to buy your new product.
All new Intel CPUs have offered us lately is lower power consumption.
Why spend $800 on a new computer to save $1 a month in electric power?
Laptops, tablets, yes. Desktops, I'd have to be stupid.
And in hardware,. the NUC, the little boxes, those aren't going to persuade me to ditch my desktop either.