Interesting views yesterday from three separate consumers whilst I was in a department store buying a TV. The first was a couple in their twenties (I think not great at age guessing) who were looking at buying a new laptop for home. They played with Windows 8 had a demo from the official demonstrator who was fairly impressive in his skill. They bought an Apple instead but I missed their reasons for that, as at that point the sales assistant was busy teling me that they didn't have the telly I wanted.

Then there was a much older man mid to late fifties who asked where the Windows 7 computers were, and was told that 8 had become the default windows version. He was persuaded to watch a brief demonstration and then midway through said "That's lovely me old son but where are the ones with Windows 7 on them?" he left empty handed.

Third was a couple who were again younger and bought one after a brief demo but were grumbling about having to buy a touch enabled PC because "the software needs it". I spoke to the demonstrator who said that there was mixed reaction to it with some people loving it and some utterly confused by it.

Did eventually get a nice Panasonic telly though to go in the kitchen.