Recently I watched this video about Windows 8. Basically, the author claimed that this version of Windows almost killed Microsoft. I was professionally using Windows 8 and Windows 8.1 for many years and I can state that this is just somewhat a clickbait.

Yes, Microsoft made a mistake and there was too much focus on tablet mode. But it is easy to tell now when we know that tablet PC didn’t become a thing. But at that time conception of the tablet PC looked logical.

Plus idea of having the same Windows with the same UI everywhere was also quite appealing. You write your application once and you can run it on the phone, PC, and XBOX. And I’m