Retailers share part of the blame for poor Windows 8 sales and the ensuing decline of PC shipments, analysts contended today.



From Computerworld:

"Windows 8 brought a brand new UI [user interface] that had not fundamentally changed since DOS," said Patrick Moorhead, principal analyst at Moor Insights & Strategy, in a blog post Tuesday. "[So] how did big-box retail respond? The same way they have for the last 20 years."

Moorhead was critical of big retailers -- Best Buy is the largest in the U.S. -- for not modifying how they sold PCs when Windows 8 landed on their stores' shipping docks.

  Retailers didn't do Windows 8 any favors