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Windows 8: How Microsoft's PC Overhaul Will Take on Apple's iPad
Windows 8's tablet support was the star of this week's BUILD conference. The new PC OS now stakes its place in the tablet wars.
By Jared Newman, PCWorld Sep 16, 2011 3:00 am
For Microsoft, the timing of Windows 8 looks to be just right. Here's why.
When Apple launched the iPad in the spring of 2010, pundits assumed that a slew of competitors would quickly follow, all powered by Google's Android operating system. These iPad alternatives were supposed to beat Apple on pricing while adding features that the original iPad lacked, such as cameras and USB ports.
At the time, the thought of the Windows operating system running a tablet was limited to business applications and vertical markets, not to the consumers that Apple and Google had in their sights.
In reality, Apple's second iPad beat the vast majority of first-generation Android tablets to the market, and even now, there's no evidence that these competitors are breaking Apple's stride.
App developers, for the most part, have ignored the tablet side of Google's Android operating system, creating an opportunity for another OS to attract both consumers and the almighty app developers that make and break platforms.
Detailed information at:
http://www.pcworld.c....html#tk.fv_rel
Windows 8's tablet support was the star of this week's BUILD conference. The new PC OS now stakes its place in the tablet wars.
By Jared Newman, PCWorld Sep 16, 2011 3:00 am
For Microsoft, the timing of Windows 8 looks to be just right. Here's why.
When Apple launched the iPad in the spring of 2010, pundits assumed that a slew of competitors would quickly follow, all powered by Google's Android operating system. These iPad alternatives were supposed to beat Apple on pricing while adding features that the original iPad lacked, such as cameras and USB ports.
At the time, the thought of the Windows operating system running a tablet was limited to business applications and vertical markets, not to the consumers that Apple and Google had in their sights.
In reality, Apple's second iPad beat the vast majority of first-generation Android tablets to the market, and even now, there's no evidence that these competitors are breaking Apple's stride.
App developers, for the most part, have ignored the tablet side of Google's Android operating system, creating an opportunity for another OS to attract both consumers and the almighty app developers that make and break platforms.
Detailed information at:
http://www.pcworld.c....html#tk.fv_rel
