The latest version of Microsoft's operating system, Windows 8, it will be released definitively the next day October 26 And it will arrive together with Surface, the company's new tablet, which will go on sale on the night of the 25th so that the most determined can get hold of their copy shortly after the official presentation. In this regard it has leaked various videos of the announcements of the new Windows, among them one that simulates and explains the operation of the operating system on a tablet.
Microsoft faces a great challenge in the coming weeks, that of facing its arrival in a new sector where Apple , its great historical competitor, is the benchmark brand and in which some devices Android they are emerging and gaining users by forced marches. Corresponds to the company that currently leads Steve Ballmer reverse an unfavorable situation, when in the field of the PC they are accustomed to on the contrary. On the one hand, it is a great opportunity since Microsoft is in a position to become an alternative to the iPad / Android binomial, but on the other, it can fail with a bang if it fails to assert itself to the consumer, which, without a doubt, will not be easy.
For this new stage the company founded by Bill Gates and Paul Allen, has renewed its image, starting with the logo and continuing with the interface of its software, which has been completely redesigned. In fact, Windows is hard to recognize in its new guise. It is a play risky since perhaps the clearest point for Microsoft to mount its strategy would have been the familiarity of users with the interface that they have been using on their PCs for years and years. Windows as an operating system for tablets could have included users among those not yet too familiar with mobile devices, which may not be a great long-term strategy, but nor would I have supposed to start practically zero.
Well, we already have a first advance of Microsoft's bet for the tablet market. It must be remembered that although the Redmond company will put its own device on the market, many manufacturers are preparing models, most of them hybrids, to work with the new one. Windows 8, and among which it is worth highlighting the Samsung ATIV, The Asus live tab and new versions of the Acer Iconia Tab. The videos that have been filtered are commercial announcements Windows 8 where the basic operation of the system is explained.
Source: The Next Web.