Microsoft focuses on low cost tablet to impose the system Windows 8

 

Of the difficulties that Microsoft is having to impose its new operating system in the field of tablets(VOYO q907) has been said and written in recent weeks, accomplices sales data released by IDC and other market research company. Now the attention of many industry professionals is focused on what he will do in the near future the Redmond to reverse a trend that certainly can not be considered satisfactory in the presence of the force of a competition called Apple and Google.

Acer and Asus the first vendor to focus on low cost tablets
The feeling, from different surrogate rumors, is that the new bet of Windows 8 tablets(Allfine Fine7) with screens are smaller than those in use on the Surface of vendor partners and products of North American society.

The fact that Amazon has appeared on a few days ago (only for a few hours) for pre-order at $ 379.99 a product of Acer 8-inch board with the highest performance version of the platform, which suggests that the tablets "mid range "may be the road chosen by Microsoft to play for their cards more seriously in this area.

A change of strategy that makes the rest following the announcement of new hardware requirements for Windows 8, starting right from the lowest resolution (1,024 x 768 pixels) screens than initially supported by the operating system.

This matter was also expressed in recent days, the Wall Street Journal, according to which even Asus (producer notoriously very close to Microsoft on the front of the computer) is working to bring to market in the coming months a Windows 8 Tablet PC with list prices below $ 300.

Farewell to Windows RT and chip Arm?

Eight, in other words, could become the platform for producers of reference for mobile PCs "bonsai" new generation. At the expense probably of Windows RT, the version of the new operating system developed to work on tablets and portable "low end" to Arm processor architecture and addressed, with little success so far, the final user.

Given the incompatibility with existing Windows applications, RT would lose all or almost reason to exist. With all due respect Arm and various Qualcomm and Nvidia, which for this version of the software they have developed dedicated chips, and extreme satisfaction for Intel, which would become sole supplier for tablet Windows exactly as he did in his time with the netbook.

The Colossus of Santa Clara, for its part, has long made no secret of wanting to play a protagonist in the mobile arena (also in smartphones) and as far as the tablet is known that in Serbia has the launch of a new family of Atom chips , based on the new micro-architecture

"Silvermont" to 22 nanometers which uses the tri-gate transistor, by the end of the year.
So think of ultralight tablet equipped with Windows Blue (updating Windows 8 expected for the autumn) and quad core processors (code-named "Bay Trail") that guarantee performance and efficiency much higher than those of the models on the market today is not utopia. Indeed. The first products in the concept - that of Acer and Asus above and probably others signed by HP, Samsung and Dell - could debut as early after the summer.

A billion dollars to the digital assets of Nook Media

Somehow related to the issue Windows 8 tablet is finally indiscretion, made public by the specialized website Tech Crunch, that Microsoft would be willing to pay a billion dollars to detect a number of assets from the joint venture Nook Media, formed in 2012 with Barnes & Noble.

In the internal document Redmond ended up in the hands of Tech Crunch would speak also plans to release the "new company" (in which Microsoft invested
$ 300 million for a stake of 17 percent) from the business of the Nook Tablet to the Android platform, scheduled for next year, and a new strategy focused on the licensing of content to third-party developers. To which you will be asked limitation, this might be expected, to work only in orbit Windows 8