Thursday, July 26, 2012

Lots of tablets with Windows 8 RT coming this year

Well the Microsoft said that other manufacturers would have Windows 8 tablets available to RT. At least four major OEMs already preparing devices with the future version of Windows designed specifically to interact via touch screens. Asus, Lenovo, Samsung and Toshiba plan to release tablets with the system by the end of the year, according to information from a Chinese website.


Economic Times, a Chinese newspaper that brought the details of this story, says that every chip manufacturer ARM architecture was entitled to choose two manufacturing partners for the launch of Windows on tablets. Nvidia would have entered into an agreement with Asus and Lenovo, HP and Qualcomm to Samsung, Texas Instruments and Toshiba only. It seems that in the end HP decided to ignore the ARM architecture, making Qualcomm also negotiate with Dell.

My understanding of Mandarin still disappointed (in fact I know nothing about the language), but given to understand from what the Google translator exhibited to the Economic Times the news that Acer is one of the manufacturers deprecated at this moment. The Taiwanese should wait until January of next year to present RT tablets with Windows, in what would be a second phase in the unfolding of Windows for tablets.

Microsoft announced that Windows 8 have two versions beyond that intended for tablets, standard and Pro Consumers can buy them in stores. However, called RT Windows 8 will come factory on the devices. In June it was the turn of the MS present to the world line of Surface tablets, which follows a pre-established visual identity and has some manufacturing partners.

For me it is evident that the company led by Steve Ballmer following a method used by Intel with ultrabooks (we did a special podcast on the subject): trying to bring order to the house from the determination of standards that must be followed by all manufacturers decide to release something worthy to participate in the online Surface.