Android Tablet: Windows Tablet

Tuesday 16 October 2012

Windows Tablet

NEWS ANALYSIS: Microsoft likely will show a version of their Windows 8 RT operating system on a Microsoft-branded tablet during its June 18 press conference in Los Angeles, but it won’t be the final product design.

When Microsoft introduces its new Windows 8 tablet on Monday, June 18 at a media briefing in Los Angeles, the device it presents will be a technology preview device, not a finished product, said Craig Mathias, principal analyst for Farpoint Group.The new device will run Windows RT, which is a version of Windows 8 that is stored in CMOS on the device and will also include, among other things, a version of Microsoft Office.

Mathias said that there may be several different Windows 8 tablets at the introduction, and that he expects them to be more business-oriented than the Apple iPad. €œThe iPad really isn€™t a business device,€ Mathias, said. €œMicrosoft will approach this from a business direction.€

The real question is whether or not the new tablet will be as easy to use as an iPad and whether or not it will be perceived by customers as being as good or better in value when compared with the iPad. To accomplish this, Microsoft will have to create a tablet that is at least as thin and preferably thinner than the New iPad. It will also have to have a user interface that is as intuitive as the iPad€™s and as responsive.