You realize that more people use Windows 8+ than OS X, right?
The reaction that I see is that all sorts of workers are now walking around touching Windows on tablets and laptops. I've seen them in restaurants, supermarkets, service centers, stores, in my house, in my yard.
You're thinking about the tech blog/news people's reaction to Windows 8+. Plenty of actual people are using the product because it offers something that no other system does - and that is a full operating system with touch, not a locked down rental unit.
Plenty of actual people are using the product because it offers something that no other system does
Workers are not making those decisions -- large companies that employ them (or consultancies employed by those companies) are doing so, probably for the same reasons that companies have been choosing Windows for 20 years, which have nothing to do with touchscreens.
In general, Windows has a vastly higher market share than OS X, so yeah I think a lot of people do choose to use it.
And it has everything to do with touchscreens because touchscreens are just another example in the long history of Microsoft offering features that OS X simply doesn't have. I bet you'll be singing the praises of touch screens on OS X when Apple finally catches up.
The reaction that I see is that all sorts of workers are now walking around touching Windows on tablets and laptops. I've seen them in restaurants, supermarkets, service centers, stores, in my house, in my yard.
You're thinking about the tech blog/news people's reaction to Windows 8+. Plenty of actual people are using the product because it offers something that no other system does - and that is a full operating system with touch, not a locked down rental unit.