Microsoft Working on Tablet Windows in Time for the End of the World
Bloomberg have today written that Microsoft's apparent new Tablet version of Windows that's set to be unveiled at CES next month will be a special version running on ARM chips, which is great news for those wanting a low-power tablet device. The bad news though is that we're unlikely to see this new version of Windows appear until 2012 (and if Nostradamus' predictions of the end of the world that year bear fruit, then it'll have a very short product life).
So why am I making "end of the world" comments in relation to Microsoft's forthcoming tablet OS release? Frankly it's because it might as well be the end of the world and at least probably will be for Microsoft if it really takes them that long. By then Apple could be on their fourth generation iPad and the tablet version of Google's Android operating system will have been out for a year and a half.
Microsoft is apparently not worried about coming into markets late however, just look at the recent launch of Windows Phone for proof of this. In fact we ought to watch Windows Phone over the next year to gauge how well a tablet version of Windows will do when it finally appears, as the tablet and smartphone markets have strong links. If it does well then perhaps Microsoft shouldn't be overly worried, if it does poorly however Microsoft should perhaps rethink their tablet strategy and produce something much sooner.
So what happens to all of us in the interim wanting a tablet but not wanting an iPad or Android device? Some manufacturers such as ExoPC are already producing tablets with custom touch interfaces (and indeed I'll be testing the ExoPC myself over the holidays and reporting back to you here in the New Year with a full review and verdict). Other manufacturers who are well known for custom interfaces such as HTC have also said they will or may step into the market, but this still leaves the power-hungry and non-tablet-friendly Windows 7 running underneath.
I have to say I'm getting more and more depressed about the state of the Windows tablet market. I can only hope that having an ExoPC for Christmas cheers me up a bit.
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Are these articles AI generated?
Now the duplicates are more obvious.
This is below AI generated crap. It is copy of Microsoft Help website article without any relevant supporting text. Anyway you can find this information on many pages.
Yes, but why post the exact same article under a different title twice on the same day (19 march 2023), by two different writers?
1.) Excel Keyboard Shortcuts by Trevor Monteiro.
2.) 70+ Excel Keyboard Shortcuts for Windows by Priyanka Monteiro
Why oh why?
Yeah. Tell me more about “Priyanka Monteiro”. I’m dying to know. Indian-Portuguese bot ?
Probably they will announce that the taskbar will be placed at top, right or left, at your will.
Special event by they is a special crap for us.
If it’s Microsoft, don’t buy it.
Better brands at better prices elsewhere.
All new articles have zero count comments. :S
WTF? So, If I add one photo to 5 albums, will it count 5x on my storage?
It does not make any sense… on google photos, we can add photo to multiple albums, and it does not generate any additional space usage
I have O365 until end of this year, mostly for onedrive and probably will jump into google one
Photo storage must be kept free because customers chose gadgets just for photos and photos only.
What a nonsense. Does it mean that albums are de facto folders with copies of our pictures?
Sounds exactly like the poor coding Microsoft is known for in non-critical areas i.e. non Windows Core/Office Core.
I imagine a manager gave an employee the task to create the album feature with hardly any time so they just copied the folder feature with some cosmetic changes.
And now that they discovered what poor management results in do they go back and do the album feature properly?
Nope, just charge the customer twice.
Sounds like a go-getter that needs to be promoted for increasing sales and managing underlings “efficiently”, said the next layer of middle management.
When will those comments get fixed? Was every editor here replaced by AI and no one even works on this site?
Instead of a software company, Microsoft is now a fraud company.
For me this is proof that Microsoft has a back-door option into all accounts in their cloud.
quote “…… as the MSA key allowed the hacker group access to virtually any cloud account at Microsoft…..”
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so this MSA key which is available to MS officers can give access to all accounts in MS cloud.This is the backdoor that MS has into the cloud accounts. Lucky I never got any relevant files of mine in their (MS) cloud.
>”Now You: what is your theory?”
That someone handed an employee a briefcase full of cash and the employee allowed them access to all their accounts and systems.
Anything that requires 5-10 different coincidences to happen is highly unlikely. Occam’s razor.
Good reason to never login to your precious machine with a Microsoft a/c a.k.a. as the cloud.
The GAFAM are always very careless about our software automatically sending to them telemetry and crash dumps in our backs. It’s a reminder not to send them anything when it’s possible to opt out, and not to opt in, considering what they may contain. And there is irony in this carelessness biting them back, even if in that case they show that they are much more cautious when it’s their own data that is at stake.