With Windows 8 doing little to spark laptop sales, you can hear the grousing of PC makers get louder.

The latest complaints come from Jun Dong-Soo, president of Samsung’s memory chip division, who had no kind words for Windows 8 during a meeting with reporters in Seoul.

“The global PC industry is steadily shrinking despite the launch of Windows 8,” he said Friday, according to Korea Times. “I think the Windows 8 system is no better than the previous Windows Vista platform.”

Jun’s statements echo findings by IDC and Gartner, who found that PC sales declined during the holiday shopping season. Jun added that Microsoft’s Surface has seen “lackluster demand,” and that demands for thinner Ultrabooks by Microsoft and Intel failed “mostly because of the less-competitive Windows platform.”

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