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Originally Posted by boswd
I'm actually quite surprised MS is beating Apple to the punch in this whole converging the mobile OS and Desktop OS without even having a tablet on the market.
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Before you start celebrating, note these observations:
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So what is there to play with in the developer build of Windows 8? Not a lot off the bat. Even though Microsoft showed off a three-pane email client, a calendar, contacts, a fancy PDF reader, SkyDrive and even Photoshop on stage, none of those staples were included on our tablet.
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Powered by a 1.6GHz Core i5-2467M processor and a 64GB solid state drive, the system is absolutely no slouch on performance — everything from scrolling in the browser to the Start screen is extremely speedy and the system boots incredibly quickly. However, fan noise is very noticeable, as is the heat coming out of the top vent, and a fast boot doesn’t excuse the slow wake-up times compared to ARM-based cellphones and tablets.
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If we’re going to be totally honest though, we’d describe Windows 8 right now as incoherent and contradictory. Touch response in the Metro UI is stellar, Contracts sound seriously useful, and snapping apps can make you more productive on a tablet, but whenever you want to get down and dirty with a traditional program, it’s back to the traditional desktop interface. There are two Control Panels, two versions of IE, and core apps are nowhere to be found (i.e. Mail, a camera app, etc.)
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There's a lot of pundits who think that MS is going down the wrong road in trying to converge the desktop and mobile OSes. From the above quotes, its clear that while they have made a good start, they are far from the finish line.
They have the best productivity apps- for the x86 environment. They haven't built any for tablets yet. They don't seem to have the even the beginnings of a Microsoft Word app yet. Hell, even the core apps are missing at this point.
Now, good luck to Microsoft, but they haven't done it yet. Remember this.