After a few unexciting years, Microsoft has thrown down the gauntlet with a very bold move around Windows 8. A very fresh UI philosophy, lot of stress on cloud storage and social networking, and of course, availability as Windows Phone 8 in the Smartphone market signals that the desktop giant has finally got its gameplan right, and is capable of putting up an extremely strong fight against Google and Samsung. HTC has got some stunning hardware for the Windows Phone 8, and with initial reviews of the Windows 8 touch laptops being pretty positive, exciting times are ahead for consumers.
However, it's not all sorted out yet. We are already seeing problems running ASP.Net and HTML based applications on Windows 8 machines. There aren't as many native apps out there as Android and iOS users are used to seeing. And within Enterprises, if all those hundreds of apps already bought and installed do not easily upgrade, adoption will be extremely painful.
Personally, while the cloud integration is exciting, it can be another killer for Enterprises, where IT is going to have a nightmare trying to protect and prevent Enterprise stuff from getting uploaded and saved onto cloud storages, by careless users, intentionally or otherwise.
One thing is sure - it's do or die time for the once undisputable leader in desktop and personal software.
1 comment:
There could be two possibilites for MS as I see.
1. They would soon build-up a good set of applications market place offering all that user needs
2. Or they would soon cough-up a new version(or an Service Pack) of Windows (probably 9) having backward compatibility like they did when Vista was launched.
Either way, I think MS has to act fast to stop loosing market share and it gets too late!
However, I strongly feel that the whole idea of Win 8 is promising and its a kind of reform in OS frontier, like it was back when first Windows was released and people moved from DOS to GUI. Slowly we all will start getting use to this and accepting this change!
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