Excerpt: Microsoft's Windows 8 is a bold innovation, melding the worlds of tablets and PCs. Its excellent touch input, an app store, and better performance are compelling, but the...
Conclusion: Windows Phone 8 is a good-looking, well-designed, easy-to-use mobile operating system, but with a very different set of apps compared with other platforms, it's still for
Pros: Well-designed interface. Excellent Microsoft Office, Outlook, and Windows 8 compatibility. Top-notch social network integration.
Cons: App selection is different from, and less than on other mobile platforms. Poor Mac compatibility. Few GPS navigation options on non-Nokia phones.
Conclusion: Windows 8 is a bold innovation, melding the worlds of tablets and PCs. Its excellent touch input, an app store, and better performance are compelling, but the changes...
Pros: Faster boot times. Two-in-one operating system?both tablet and PC. Excellent touch input. App store for easily finding, installing, and updating apps. New IE10 browser...
Cons: Unfamiliar and sometimes unintuitive interface navigation. Few tablet apps compared with competing platforms. Two separate control panels and browsers could cause conf...
Conclusion: I keep wanting to say "Windows Phone has a lot of potential," as if this OS is a version 1.0. But it isn't – it's the third version, and it's been around for two years.
Pros: Well designed interface, Excellent Windows/Office compatibility, Top notch social network integration
Cons: Selection of apps isn't ideal, Evidence of some bugs, Poor nav options outside of Nokia phones
Excerpt: While most Apple fans need not worry overtly about Microsoft's Windows operating system (perhaps with the exception of running it in a virtual environment such as
Conclusion: Microsoft needed to do something drastic to head off the "post PC" world. The company – like every tech analyst – saw the writing on the wall that tablets were the way of...
Pros: Faster boot times, Some great new tools, Excellent for touch input, Nicely priced upgrade
Cons: Unfamiliar and sometimes unintuitive UI, Two separate Control Panels and browsers
Summary: The X86 version of Microsoft's new OS for your PC, laptop/netbook and non-ARM tablet.
Pros: Finally plays nice with touch, Has its own style, Maintains desktop environment, Great performance even on old hardware
Cons: Needs touch to come into its own, The cohesion is broken when running older software, Its visual style won’t be for everyone, Doesn’t offer as good a desktop experienc...