Cloud Computing: Microsoft Launches Windows 8, Surface Tablets
October 26, 2012
Grazed from Sys Con Media. Author: Maureen O’Gara.
Microsoft Thursday launched the biggest, most dramatic makeover of its operating system since Windows went graphical, perfuming the effort with a billion-dollar marketing budget. Windows 8 will be on the street Friday, October 26. It has to best the competition from the smartphones and iPads that have helped Apple and Google suck up a lot of Microsoft’s business.
If the new un-Microsoft-like operating system doesn’t catch on – it has no familiar Start button or menu – it could be curtains for CEO Steve Ballmer and maybe even the company. Microsoft has been late to the Internet, search and mobile and looks to be an old relic, whose stock barely moves anymore, compared to Apple, Google and Amazon…
The new touchscreen-favoring widgetry – with colored tiles instead of icons to indicate applications – will turn up on hundreds of x86 PCs, tablets and hybrids in the coming months. Although PCs are currently not in favor, Microsoft hopes to rekindle their ebbing light. The widgetry can still be controlled by a mouse and a keyboard by switching to desktop mode just like the good old days…
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