微软(Microsoft Corp.)一名高管承认了许多科技行业观察者已经发现的事实:该公司旗舰产品Windows8软件未能达到预期。微软目前正对此进行彻底反思,以拿出应对之策。去年秋天推出的这款新操作系统本应该帮助微软及其盟友打入包括平板电脑和可转换产品在内的新型电子设备市场,同时激发消费者购买新个人电脑的兴趣。但据一些个人电脑业高管和研究公司说,这款操作系统在推出六个月之后,目前仍然没有成为一款热卖产品。
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executive is acknowledging what many tech watchers already knew: The company's flagship Windows 8 software hasn't met expectations, and Microsoft is turning itself inside out to respond.
市场研究机构国际数据公司(IDC)甚至说,Windows8不仅未能重振个人电脑市场,事实上,它对Windows操作系统基本元素的改变让用户感到厌烦。
Last fall's
introduction of the new operating
system was
supposed to be an
achievement to catapult Microsoft and its
allies into the market for new kinds of computing devices