V3.co.uk posted a story that Microsoft's new platform could prove a curate's egg for organisations and IT departments

"At this point we're not expecting organisations to decide to upgrade their PCs to Windows 8. They may even try to skip it for all their PCs, even new-bought ones," said Mike Silver, a distinguished analyst at research firm Gartner.

Part of the problem is that many companies are still in the process of rolling out Windows 7 across their organisation, Silver said, and are now suffering from "migration fatigue".

"We don't see [Windows 8] as being a big enterprise play," he told V3.

  Windows 8 poses a quandary for the enterprise