The year is 2009. Nvidia’s GTX 295 is ruling the graphics card market, Apple recently released the iPhone 3G, and Microsoft has announced its newest operating system, Windows 7, to high amounts of consumer praise. Users finally felt like a suitable upgrade from Windows XP had arrived, and within two years, roughly 45 percent of PC owners installed Windows 7 on their machines.
Fast forward three years, and along comes Windows 8. In case you’ve forgotten, Windows 8 launched without a start menu, instead focusing on a new, modern tile design. To put its reception in context, Windows 8 barely gained a sliver of market share more than two years after its release.
