Well, Windows 8 has been partially unveiled with a big bang. It brings some fresh and creative concept to reimagine the Windows operating system with Metro-the next gen Windows phone OS. As it is claimed, the new Windows 8 not only serves for PC, it can be also equipped on tablets. That's it. This is Microsoft's new advanture to compete with Apple's iPad. This is Microsoft's new strategy to integrate its traditional PC OS with current hottest tablet OS.
Inspired by iPhone's customer-friendly UI, Microsoft changes lots of details for users to fully costomize it. Three ways are provided to unlock the system including password, a pin or an image users select. For the metro, users are allowed to create own app groups with flowing content to show on the start page in a "live" way. Social network friends list also has a position on the welcome page. The most amazing and noticeable part for it is that people can sycn a Metro-based tablet with a PC with a Windows Live Id to enjoy all data and performance people can do on its PC, which means, you can sync up with you preferences including your wallpapers, lock screen choices, your passwords, browsing history, IE favourites and what you’ve got pinned to your welcome page. (More details can be found at pocket-lint.com. ) So you got it, this is a slimmed-down but fully functioning PC in tablet form. It is totally different with iPad or any other tablet appears as they are grown-up, blown-up phone in tablet form. Microsoft want to push us into the "Post PC" era. They want to convince us PC is not out of date. However, there are also a lot of challeages.
Well, to run the Metro, the device is required to have a 1GHz processor, 1GB of RAM and 16GB of storage space. This is what tech geeks question a lot. How to make it possible for a piece of metal to be equipped with all functions a PC has? In my opinion, iPad's success kind of contributes to the restriction. To focus on particular funtions, a tablet cuts a lot of other functions as a PC has. Therefore, speed and battery life is maxmiumed for using. Tablet share the same apps with phones. This is Apple's enco-system. If iPad also supports background processings, people will have no interest to get it. Another bad news is that Microsoft doesn't produce products. The conjunction of hardware and software remains a lot of questions.
Well, Metro will be available in 2012. Let's expect a stunning and impressive Windows 8 system with fresh and new concept. That's what we users want to see.
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