Microsoft Showcases Win8 Tablet PC Next Week Launching Mobile Business

According to foreign media reports, at the Microsoft Developers Conference next Tuesday, Windows Department head Steven · Steven Sinofsky will show a support for touch screen, on the tablet Friendly, early version of the operating system codenamed Windows 8. This software is very important. HighMark Money Management's portfolio manager Todd & Middot; Todd Lowenstein said, "Windows 8 is very important. Investors are anxious to know how Microsoft is adapting to industry trends. Microsoft has lagged behind the industry trend and needs to catch up and prove that it is the real innovator. ”

Although the tablet revolution was predicted 10 years ago, Microsoft has yet to come up with a product for sale. Tablet PCs, founder of Microsoft's founder Bill & Middot; Bill Gates at the Comdex show in November 2001 were too cumbersome to succeed. Microsoft's CEO Steve Ballmer and Steve Ballmer's beautifully-looking HP tablet prototype at CES 2010 were not really in volume production.

It is expected that the first Windows 8 tablets with touch screens will be available for sale in about 12 months. This will give Apple iPad a two-and-a-half-year lead. iPad sales have reached 29 million units. Android tablets will continue to grow, and Amazon's upcoming tablet products will further boost the Android tablet market.

Computing technology has moved more than expected from desktop PCs to smartphones and tablets. Microsoft's future and its share price may depend on the Windows 8 tablet that Sinofsky showed. Michael Ymidkami, CEO of investment company YCMNET Advisors, said, “If you have innovations in touch screens, Windows 8 may succeed. Otherwise, Windows 8 is just Windows (7). +1) only. & rdquo;

First, Microsoft needs to regain recognition from developers and entrepreneurs who have moved from Microsoft-centric programming platforms to Apple and Android platforms. Matt McIlwain, managing director of venture capital firm Madrona Venture Group, said that shifting to an Apple-style culture is an obvious trend among innovators and entrepreneurs, “5 years ago, in Of the startups we approached, 80% used laptops to demonstrate PowerPoint documents. Today, 80% use Mac computers. If I am Ballmer, this will make me worry."

The enthusiasm of independent software developers is critical to Microsoft's so-called Windows "industrial chain" health. Microsoft's Xbox game console accessories Kinect somatosensory control system is very attractive to developers, but it is lagging behind competitors in the fast-growing mobile application market.

Apple iPhone and iPad users can download 425,000 apps, Android apps have 250,000 models, and Windows Phones has only 30,000 apps. When Microsoft releases Windows 8 and the accompanying app store, mobile apps on the Windows platform will grow.

Microsoft has found that it has been marginalized among many technology startups. For example, the fashion site StyleCaster uses Apple's computer, Google's email system, Web server software on the Linux platform, and Amazon's storage service. StyleCaster vice president of technology Dulu · Drew Butler said, "In the four or five years since the iPhone platform was introduced, more and more developers have turned to Apple's platform, which has added to the Apple platform. The more tools. ”

But not everyone is pessimistic about the prospects of the Windows platform. Wes Greene, mobile application developer Groundspeak's chief mobile developer, expects that the partnership with Nokia will make Microsoft's platform mainstream.

Microsoft also needs to strengthen communication with Wall Street and investors. Next Wednesday, Ballmer and his assistant will hold an analyst conference call to explain the company's strategy. Analysts may be concerned about the old-fashioned question: How long should the Bing search business, which has been losing money, still exist, how to deal with $53 billion in cash reserves.