Microsoft’s Windows 8 has created enough speculation among the crowd and interestingly, also among the tablet users. How comfortable would it be to seemingly sync and use almost all the apps you use on your Windows machine? That is what Microsoft is trying to do with the Windows 8 Tablets.
With the recent release of the Windows 8 Consumer Preview, Microsoft has promised to bring a dramatic change in the PC industry, including the post-PC devices like the Tablets. With Windows 8, both the Microsoft and the Customers are expecting it to kick-off the typical and badly looking Android tablets off the market.
After Apple’s iPad, which set the pace for the tablet devices in the market, the UI and design has become an important aspect in ANY device that comes out in the market. And when compared to Android, the Windows 8’s UI would be a very huge selling point for the tablet devices.
Microsoft does not feel bad in saying that the tablet PCs would support only Metro enabled apps. Even then, Microsoft would be soon flooded with apps from the developers community. The major advantage of developing for the Windows 8 devices would be the super featured developer tools (Visual Studio) which comes from Microsoft, optimized for Windows 8. Whereas, me being a mobile application developer, hate developing Android applications due to the lack of developer tools and a standardized format for drag drop kind of UI Builder. And Google is yet to give a satisfactory answers for the huge fragmentation issue, and Version 4 has come out now, but still no signs of giving developers a change to solve the fragmentation issue, making the lives of the devs hell.
Microsoft’s Antoine Leblonde says:
“We have the best app economics out there.”
So, Why Windows 8 tablets would take over the Android Tablets? Well, as you know, its Windows. As with any Operating System, Windows have been the most successful OS for the common men and with the tablets coming out, it would hold the same.
Whatever, both Windows 8 tablets and the Android tablets are striving to get the place where the iPad is currently. But even if they aren’t getting there, the second place would still go to Windows tablets at this pace.