Windows 8: success or big mistake? - Mobile Magazine

of Luke Figini May 8, 2013

Into resounding Success or failure? The critics and the experts are divided on Windows 8 . The Financial Times called him a bust by Microsoft , one of the most important in the history of the company and indeed comparable with a few other “top shots” so far known in trade. Maybe a judgment too edgy, provocative probably and lashing, however excessive for an operating system that can boast 100 million out licenses.

Sure, you say, each new bought PC is based on Windows 8; remains impossible to know how many licenses they relate to updates 7. But it also said that the PC will sell less of the past, then the update will have some effect as well have. Then there is the comment Tami Reller, head of Windows at Microsoft, he says: “It is perfect ? No. There are things we need to change ? Absolutely. We are well aware of where we need to step in and do it in the fastest way possible. ” Windows 8 has not satisfied the palate of users, you miss the Start menu (which will return along with other steps back in Windows Blue available in public beta since June), you want to approach an excessive hybrid between notebooks and tablets.

Perhaps therein lies the weak point of the platform, however, innovative but too moved to the touchscreen in an era of growth of the tablet. We needed a break from the past, to the computer, but this may have limited the liking from the public. So much so that, for example, Surface accounts for about one million units: a few. Too bad, because the product works and it’s really well done. But it shows a part of weakness of Microsoft, having focused on the combination of Windows 8 and RT. When the latter is only the ring of conjunction between your smartphone (Windows Phone) and the computer (Windows 8).

In the era of cows almost bloodless like this can not be said to those who need to have three devices to get the most from ‘ ecosystem based on the plat form of Microsoft : Windows Phone, Windows 8 and Windows RT. Yet it is so. Pass the tablet with RT as a simplified version of those with 8 was probably the original sin of the strategy commercial because it creates expectations of RT, when this is not is a PC but only one answer to iOS and Android .

And as such should be placed, otherwise the version is “poor” little exploitable . Now we need to fix in the race, fortunately the ‘ industry has responded enthusiastically to Windows 8 by offering dozens of devices different designs and functions, focusing on the touchscreen and on models with many different form factors. Everything will depend on the price factor: the models with Windows 8/RT will become less demanding and this will open up new roads. Along with the arrival of the new version .