Apple paved the way but Microsoft will get there first with Windows 8. A tablet that can be as fluid and user friendly as the iPad but as capable as a Windows laptop. A tablet that can boot in under 10 seconds and fire up a full-scale version of Adobe Dreamweaver a few moments later. A tablet that can be slipped into a dock to instantly become a fully capable touch-enabled laptop computer. This is Microsoft’s vision with Windows 8, and this is what it will deliver.
Sorry Apple, Windows 8 ushers in the post-post-PC era by Zach Epstein at BGR.
This is pure comedy. If you read any technology news today, you owe it to yourself to read this laughable piece at the normally respectable BGR.
That Epstein believes a product which still requires an entire year of development is going to dethrone the wildly popular iPad shows how utterly insane this linkbait article is. Windows 8 was only demoed at BUILD. Compare that to the first time the iPad was unveiled; it was a finished product available to consumers a month later.
I have great respect for Microsoft and what they are attempting to do with Windows 8. Unifying the desktop and mobile experience is admirable. The Metro UI is completely unique and seems to be the right way to tackle this task. Just count me in as a skeptic that this tactic will be successful, whereby successful is defined as taking a sizable portion of the tablet market, at this stage in the game.
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