Interest in tablets with Microsoft's Windows 8 is plummeting, Forrester Research said in a study released Tuesday.



From ComputerWorld:

Microsoft will be late to market with Windows 8, and lagging well behind competitors such as Apple and Google, which have refined their operating systems for the fast-changing tablet market, wrote JP Gownder, vice president and research director at Forrester, in a blog entry.

About 46% of U.S. consumers "yearned" for a Windows 8 tablet in the first quarter this year, but that has dropped to 25% in the third quarter, Forrester said in its study. Microsoft has not officially announced a release date for Windows 8, but Intel executives expect the OS to arrive on PCs by mid-to-late next year.

  Interest waning on Windows 8 tablet, Forrester says