Microsoft unveils Windows 8 in challenge to Apple, Google

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Microsoft unveils Windows 8 in challenge to Apple, Google

By Dylan Renolds and Barry Neild, CNN

March 4th  

2 pages

Microsoft unveils Windows 8 for public testing worldwidely on Wednesday in the hope that it will help the brand win back some of the ground it has been losing to Apple and Google. The biggest feature of the Windows 8 is the new operating system, called the "Metro." it is a user welcome desktop that was used on Windows Phone 7, Window's recent system on mobile phone devices. However, Microsoft still remains the desktop from Windows 7 for easing the controll. It's either a benefit or a disadvantage, because yet the old desktop style helps Windows 7 users to understand the system faster and easier, but since Windows 8 is a update a long time after the Windows 7, we are expecting more than just a new look of the system. Microsoft suffered heavily in the past 2 years due to the spread of iPhones and Androids. Windows Phone system still has a large distance with iPhone's, and it's speed of updating is not faster than Android's. Perhaps the time has changed, it has became important to Mircrosoft to change, too, in order to win back the advantage it has lost.

(No one can argue that 2012 is a year of media & technology. In the past century we couldn't develop the media entertainment because of the war and the limit of technology, but in the 21th century, every imagination can become true. For instance, touch screens were once only appear in frictions, but now it is almost assessable on every new mobile device. The revealing of Windows 8 is not just a huge transition of Microsoft, but it also leads the competition of the technology device market to it's climax. However, no matter which company will make and sale the most products, the customers will always be the victors.)