Microsoft has unveiled the new edition of its popular Windows operating system. Scheduled to be launched in 2012, Windows 8 is intended to be Microsoft's answer to the increasingly popular Apples iOS and Google's Android platforms. Windows 8 works on both tablet computers and conventional PC's, suggesting a desire by Microsoft to diversify and compete with the aforementioned rival technology giants.
At the Build developers' conference in California, USA, Steven Sinofsky, head of the Windows division of Microsoft, said: "We re-imagined Windows. From the chipset to the user experience."
Windows 8 is set to be launched in two separate and distinct ways ; as a traditional desktop operating system in the vein of previous editions of Windows, and as a new Tablet system known as Metro; which features among other things larger controls to make touchscreen use more intuitive. Furthermore, the software is to make its debut on the ARM-designed low power processors.
Microsoft will sell Windows 8 Apps through its Windows store; something that suggests that they have reacted to the hugely successful App stores available on Apple and Android devices.
Can Windows 8 compete with iOS or Android platforms technically? Will Windows based tablets be able to rival the iPad? Let me know what you think
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