Posted on 02/18/2011 7:48:01 AM PST by SeekAndFind
Microsoft is a lot closer than people think to delivering a viable tablet, says Morgan Stanley analyst Adam Holt in a research note this morning.
After speaking with Microsoft executives, Holt says Windows 8 running on ARM chip designs could be ready as soon as the end of 2011, or early 2012.
While we've hammered Microsoft repeatedly over missing the tablet boom, we were recently informed by a source at Microsoft that the company has around 1,000 engineers working on making Windows run smoothly on ARM chip designs. And it is in fact taking the tablet market very seriously.
Yes, 2011/2012 is still another year away, but Morgan Stanley is bullish about the tablet market expanding. (It thinks 100 million tablets could be shipped in 2012.)
iPads are being tested or deployed in 80% of Fortune 100 companies, but that doesn't mean Apple will own the enterprise market. Microsoft has a lot of room to catch up, even it comes late to the game.
(Excerpt) Read more at businessinsider.com ...
Microsoft’s next major operating system will be WINDOWS 8, which will be designed to work with Tablets.
They are working closely with lots of CHIP Designers like Qualcomm, for mobile computing.
See stories here :
http://news.google.com/news/search?aq=f&pz=1&cf=all&ned=us&hl=en&q=Windows+8
Frankly, I don't see Microsoft doing anything but unnecessary and annoying bloat.
RE: Will it take all day to boot and need more memory than is currently available on the planet?
If they ever design such a s**ty product, you can be sure they won’t even sell one piece of software.
RE: Will it take all day to boot and need more memory than is currently available on the planet?
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I run a phone (HTC HD2) with the Snapdragon processor and Windows Mobile (CE) 6.5. It is very fast and I have literally no complaints with it. I also have an I-Pad. I expected the IPad to be better than it is. It is hard to work with because everything has to go through Itunes. You can’t just drag and drop files where ever you want. If I could have my HD2 on the Apple hardware it would be one fine device.
I really don’t know why people knock MS so much. Their stuff works. I run XP, Vista and 7 in the office, they all work well, running day in and day out.
The worst thing I can say about MS is they changed the interface on Office on version 2007 and won’t let you go back.
RE: The worst thing I can say about MS is they changed the interface on Office on version 2007 and won’t let you go back
You’re now on to something when it comes to the Microsoft hate... and it is this, they will FORCE you to updgrade to their latest version of a piece of software or toll that you are so used to using by making it INCOMPATIBLE with the previous version.
In the world of Software Developers, they also have a knack of announcing with great fanfare that Development Tool X will be the latest and greatest tool that they have and will support for many years, make you invest your time and money mastering that tool, and then a year or two later, tell you that they’re abandoning the concept for another one.
THAT is why I HATE Microsoft. They’re annoying and waste my time.
I used to deal with the big Morgan Stanley tech analysts back in the dot com days. They weren’t nearly as smart as they thought they were.
I still run Office 97, nobody has knocked at my door and made me upgrade. Installed fine on Win 98, Win XP and now Win 7.
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