Dell's Secret Weapon Against iPad Will Be Windows 8

[tleavit]

I installed win8 beta on my win7 HP tablet and have been testing. A tablet with full win 8 that's the size of an ipad will dominate the corporate market period. Even the owners of my company who are "apple guys" don't want the ipad in the business environment since its really just a toy (my wife and kids love theirs, as an IT guy for 30 years, I cant use it at all). My win8 pad is in my AD domain and connected 100% the same as all of our computers.

 

[Vladislaus]

[citation][nom]TA152H[/nom]If Windows is your secret weapon, you'd better be a pacifist. Apple owns everything with the iPad, and they dominate. Companies that put together some Frankenstein by taking an OS from here, and then being stuck on x86, aren't winning in this arena. Apple can underprice them because they don't need to pay for Microsoft bloat (they have their own bloat, but so far don't seem to have infected tablets with it), don't get stuck on the Atom , and have so much more flexibility from generation to generation, as well as lower costs. Samsung might be able to compete with Apple, but Dell using Windows 8 does not look like it's going to be successful.[/citation]
Doesn't Windows 8 runs on ARM?

 

[leon2006]

That's no secret!...

 

[back_by_demand]

I always wanted a tablet that could run x86 Windows, just so it had the ability to install whatever OS (or multiple OS's) I wanted, I personally will be putting either Win7 or Win 8 for standard programs (which is what they really are, not Apps, which is short for applications), then chucking XBMC on it and a few choice bits of remote access software, so no matter where I am I will be able to stream my HD MKV movies from the file server at home, as well as all the other codecs that i'm not "allowed" to play on certain other peoples tablets. Heck, I may even put MS Office on it and my printer drivers so I can actually be productive. If I get really bored I may even plug in a portable USB Bluray drive and watch a movie that way. This will of course all be in glorious widescreen as I can't see any Windows tablet vendor sticking with the antiquated 4:3 aspect ratio. If I get bored of any of that I may toddle over to Candystand and play a few Flash games, y'know, cos I can.

 

[bystander]

[citation][nom]Vladislaus[/nom]Doesn't Windows 8 runs on ARM?[/citation]
Not quite yet, but it is in the works. I believe MS said it'll be released a little bit after the x86 version.

 

[dizzy_davidh]

"Dell's Secret Weapon Against iPad Will Be Windows 8..." unless Windows 8 turns out the be the steaming turd most people who've tried it are pretty sure it is going to be!

 

[ta152h]

[citation][nom]pocketdrummer[/nom]Cute. Stupid... but cute.Personally, I still think tablets are nearly useless. They're a pain to type on, and they don't run any useful applications apart from simple internet nonsense and gimmicky software.At least this will allow you to run native windows applications as long as they are touch friendly. Still, I'd rather use something with a keyboard that allows me to replace the ram/hdd/etc whenever I see fit.[/citation]

You're not even cute, you're just stupid.

Who cares what you think? The Tablet market has taken off, regardless of what a self-important jackass thinks. For what it's worth, I see no point in them either, I just realize other people do.

You can't run Windows apps native on a tablet using ARM, but then, your remark is so inherently dumb it's obvious you haven't thought about it. You say they're useless, and then talk about Windows apps running on them (most of which wouldn't run well, and you'd be better off using your desktop for). You don't see the contradiction, huh?

I'm guessing no one is going to be running an Oracle database on a tablet, and for what they are using them for, Apple simply does it better. Whether blowhards who think they know what everyone should like, believe it or not.

 

[Vladislaus]

[citation][nom]bystander[/nom]Not quite yet, but it is in the works. I believe MS said it'll be released a little bit after the x86 version.[/citation]
So the demos Microsoft showed was what? A Windows 7 in disguise? It may not be available for download but the ARM build already exists.

 

[halcyon]

I guess we'll see when it gets here. I'm quite skeptical but we'll see.