Posted on 03/04/2012 4:19:33 AM PST by SmokingJoe
Windows 8 is now available for anyone to download, and it already shows a ton of potential. In fact, Microsoft’s bold new OS, which reminds us a lot of Windows Phone, outshines the iPad in some key areas. Granted, there were things we didn’t like in our Windows 8 Consumer Preview — and the iPad 3 or iPad HD is just around the corner — but there’s no question that Apple will soon have a real fight on its hands. Here are the top 10 ways Windows 8 is better than the iPad right now. (Msnbc.com is a joint venture of Microsoft and NBCUniversal.)
1. Windows 8 is more personal than iOS While iOS represents photos with a flower icon, Windows 8 lets you choose any photo you want to populate the live tile that lives on the Start screen. And that's just one of many ways you can customize the screen you'll see most. You can move items around, name groups of apps around and name them using the Semantic zoom feature, and pin everything from your favorite people and websites to the Start screen.
2. Faster multitasking on Windows 8 No double- tapping a button to see your stuff here. Windows 8 lets you thumb through the applications you recently opened fast and fluidly just by swiping from the left edge of the screen. If you want to see all of your open apps at once, swipe from the left edge and then pull your finger back towards the edge to reveal a thumbnail view
3. People App: Beyond the Address Book One of our favorite features in Windows 8 is the People app. Why? Because it automatically links duplicate contacts so that there’s only one person for a given name.......
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Why would we Microsoft users complain?
It keeps Applebees chattering amongst themselves. :)
I think the phone will be the core of it all, eventually.
Everything else will be dumb terminals (basically a display with some ports)
Microsoft is already too late to the mobile market. I have no doubt they will turn out a gazillion features at a price match against iOS and Android, but they will be doing nothing more than once again copying technologies that others have pioneered (at a buggier price). My bottom dollar says the only way they “compete” against iOS and Android is to come up with a better compression strategy to alleviate the carriers bandwidth woes and in return, the carriers will give kick ass deals for MS Mobile devices. In the end, the consumer will pick the lesser priced “fully featured” phone powered by MS and get a second rate mobile os that has the carriers laughing all the way to the bank.
iOS on the iPad already has this. You can switch between applications by swiping the screen left or right with multiple fingers.
Exactly.
If you think about it, for most computer users, all they want is for their computers to function. They are not tinkerers.
Another advantage is that, as technology keeps improving and developing, you’d be able to have your cell phone with you and you could download the new tech straight onto it.
What a stupid article. It compares an OS with a tablet computer, then proceeds to list 10 “cool things” as if that’s the difference-maker in such a war.
Yup, passions tend to run hot in the technoweenie universe
But I don’t want a pad environment. This doesn’t belong on a conventional computer.
Hated my Windows phone ... don’t like this either.
Absolutely!
There is no inherent reason all the computational power and storage we presently have in a laptop or desktop can’t be put into a phone.
As you say, the limiting factor is not the innards, it’s the input/output. Mouse/keyboard and screen.
Neal Boortz, Erik Erikson and Herman Cain all do radio shows from WSB, which is owned by CNN. They don't exactly toe the parent company line. I assume at least some of the folks at MSNBC have the same freedom.
Neat-o!!!
THanks for that. Collecting devices is expensive!! I want one stop shopping.
This is such a BS comparison. If you want to compare apples and apples (no pun intended), it should be a comparison between Microsoft Windows 8 and Apple’s Mountain Lion. Comparing Windows 8 to the about to be superseded Apple OS is such an obviously dishonest exercise. Why not compare Mountain Lion to Windows 7? That would be equally dishonest.
This is such a BS comparison. If you want to compare apples and apples (no pun intended), it should be a comparison between Microsoft Windows 8 and Apple’s Mountain Lion. Comparing Windows 8 to the about to be superseded Apple OS is such an obviously dishonest exercise. Why not compare Mountain Lion to Windows 7? That would be equally dishonest.
Windows 8 can be used as a desktop environment with the touchscreen interface. So multiple monitors and all the rest will be there.
What version of the Windows Phone did you use? Windows Phone 7 is great!
So how well does Win8 run on a tablet?
Meant to say Windows 8 can be used WITHOUT the touchscreen interface.
I have 20 years of experience doing tech support for Windows users. The average user is going HATE Metro. There is no easy way to back out of full screen apps (no home button, no Start). They will likely use desktop immediately after startup - only to find that every time they run a program they have to slide to corner, select an icon, then click a window to get out and select another program. Stupid. Newbies are going to get LOST.
Maybe on a device that has a home button, but not a PC.
Very well on Intel based tablets and ARM based tablets coming soon!
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Article 1,232,9392 that states some other device will out iPad the iPad.
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