# Would Windows 8 have been more warmly received if...

**URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/t/would-windows-8-have-been-more-warmly-received-if/718562
**Category:** In My Humble Opinion
**Created:** [April 26, 2015, 7:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/would-windows-8-have-been-more-warmly-received-if/718562 "2015-04-26T07:49:01Z")
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### Author: ![Mangetout](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mangetout/32/19_2.png) [@Mangetout](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mangetout)
#### Post date: [April 28, 2015, 7:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/would-windows-8-have-been-more-warmly-received-if/718562/61 "2015-04-28T19:42:44Z")

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> [@BigT](#):
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> That makes no sense. If you do not think that Y was partially caused by X, then notX cannot reduce Y. You have to believe that the lack of available tablets was part of the reason people didn’t like Windows 8, or else making tablets available cannot make people like Windows 8.

No. Having no particular reason to like something is not necessarily exactly the same as having an explicit reason to dislike it. I think you’re simplifying it to the point of arithmetic, when it’s really more subtle, and recursive than all that - a very small difference in initial conditions can snowball into a very big difference in outcome.

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