Windows 8 tablet may kill Apple iPad 2 and iPad 3

September 17, 2011 | Filed under: Business | Posted by:

Many people who tested Microsoft Windows 8 on Samsung prototype tablet claim that Windows 8 tablet may kill Apple iPad 2 and its forthcoming iPad 3

Microsoft’s Windows 8 is making waves. In fact it is the most important talking point among techies. If you check the blogs or tech related websites you will find that this is one the most hotly debated issue.

Though it is still a good one year away, nonetheless, it is being talked as vividly as if it is going to be launched tomorrow. People are fascinated by it and even the pre beta version of it on a Samsung prototype.

This is a difference for a product being launched by Microsoft and a different software maker. We need to accept the fact that the hype is necessary because of the fact that it affects more than sixty percent people who use Windows as the operating system on their desktops.

Many reports suggest that Microsoft Windows is used by more than a billion people and that the new operating system is so much different from existing one that many people will be affected by it. Another thing that is keeping people guessing about it is the fact it will be equally effective operating system for tablets.

More than five thousand people were given a test tablets from Samsung during the first demonstration of Windows 8. It was pre beta version, but still it impressed majority of the people who were fascinated by how it functioned.

It was so touch friendly that people were floored by what they saw and used. Windows 7 was infinitely better than its previous version. But its feel and touch was absolutely different, of a different class.

Many people have already written the obituary of Apple tablets and even its forthcoming versions after using the pre beta version of Windows 8 on Samsung’s prototype. But the problem is that neither are final products. But one thing is sure. Final product will be several times better than the beta and prototype that we were given during the press meet.

One important thing that is going to be of great use for common users when it is launched is customizable user layout called Metro. Here instead of icons in Windows 7 we get tiles and when we touch on tiles we get the information we want.

Another great feature of the new operating system is a feature nicknamed ‘charm’. You swap your finger right to left and here come five icons that show icons for going back to home screen, search, share and settings, beside device.

So wait for a couple of months for a beta and then the actual operating system. Apple must be feeling shaky, more so in the absence of Steve Jobs.

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  • Tony

    Yes Apple must be quaking in their boots…. Look at the calculator in Windows 7 and then the one on iOS.

    Microsoft have been taking the mickey for years… Why stop now?

  • Jago

    Hmmm yes Apple are only years ahead of Microshaft in the tablet arena. I am sure they are shi£&ing it big time.

  • Richard Odom

    Wow! Umm did you notice that Apple’s iPad has close to 100% of the market if you compare units sold rather than units shipped, and that this beta version will be released just in time to compete with iPad 3 or 4 and iPhone 5 or 6? Also in time to compete with icloud version 2 and a million app app store and probably Appletv version 3. The days of Microsoft vaporware are over, they are not in a position to scare Apple by announcing a product a year ahead of time. iOS is very sticky. I am using my iPad 2 now, which I’ll give to my oldest next year when I buy iPad 3. I’ll be in my second 2 year contract with Att on my new iPhone 5 in a month. I abandoned Windows for Mac a year ago after being a pc user since the 80s, question, how is Microsoft going to steal my business from Apple? Price? Performance? Usability? Microsoft lost my business after decades of bad software, they can’t steal it back with a product that’s almost as good. It would have to be a bunch better and cost half as much, and then they’d have to convince all the authors, movie makers, musicians, and app developers to abandon iOS and release content on unproven Windows 8 os. Android might be in trouble, not Apple.

  • MADol

    @Richard Odom
    Yep, android (google) should be scared not apple but still IMO a windows 8 tab beats any ipad (even the ipad3, lol) hands down afterall we’re talking about the no compromise OS here.