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Ha ha ha ha ha. Sorry, I laugh every time I read a headline like this. When was the last time Microsoft did anything that challenged anyone in the non-gaming market?
Yes, Windows still owns the market. Yes, Windows can do some cool stuff and yes, Microsoft is really moving forward on some back office stuff. Seriously, though? Did anyone care when Microsoft released Zune? How about when they launched Kin (presuming you even remember that being on the market . . . I think it was pulled after 6 days or something)? Of course not. Microsoft has become a legacy company. They built up enough market share to never have to innovate again. It’s a great business move – they can ride that wave forever, but it certainly doesn’t make them sexy.
According to Richard Waters, writing in the Financial Times, Microsoft will unveil Windows 8 on Tuesday, which is intended to turn touchscreen computing into something more familiar to the world’s 1bn PC users. The software will be shown off at a Microsoft conference for software developers in California. The beta version of forthcoming Windows 8 operating system represents a bet that iPad does not represent the final shape of tablet computing. Rather than the pallet of icons and simple stripped-down apps popularized by Apple, Microsoft is set to show software the combines elements of both tablets and PCs.
*YAWN*
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