Sunday, September 11, 2011

Business & Technology | Microsoft reinvents flagship software — Windows 8 — for PCs and tablets | Seattle Times Newspaper

Excerpt from a timely Windows 8 reality check

It's a world in which sales of Windows — though still, by far, the most dominant operating system on PCs worldwide — have declined and Microsoft's competitors have charged ahead on mobile platforms.

Apple is leading the market in tablets with its iPad, and Google's Android and Apple's iOS operating systems are dominating on smartphones.

With Windows 8, Microsoft has to show that Windows can continue to dominate computing as computing moves to new hardware platforms.

Business & Technology | Microsoft reinvents flagship software — Windows 8 — for PCs and tablets | Seattle Times Newspaper

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