The iPad caught a huge scale of customers like a jungle fire. The device is still considered to be an elegant form of computing. That’s why, over 3 million copies were sold during March and June 2010.
However, there is our good old Windows 7, the upcoming OS for new tablets and smartphones. The CEO of Microsoft – Steve Ballmer will be personally hovering over a number of projects after the release of the OS. Some tablets, such as the MSI WindPad and HP Slate are already lined up for release in 2011.
Take a look at some key aspects that will supposedly make Windows 7 Tabs a huge success:
• Enable Curated Computing via a “User Experience Shell”
Microsoft will probably give a different look to tablets. They don’t want their customers to think of Windows tablets as laptops. According to research analyst – Forrester’s report – “Microsoft needs to embrace Curated Computing that synchs with the Xbox 360 and provides a new interface.”
• Get Ready to Spend a Lot on Marketing
With heavy investment in marketing campaigns, Microsoft can stand toe-on-toe against the iPad. Don’t worry; if Microsoft can afford to lose millions in the “Bing” popularity fiesta, promoting that new OS won’t be a problem for the company.
• Balance Price with Product Quality
In the initial few months of its release, Microsoft can offer Quality over price. If those tablets are placed at a price lower than the iPad, Microsoft has a fair chance of exceeding beyond expectations.
One should agree that Apple Stores are advantageous for Apple, due to which the company is provided with an opportunity to promote its new products as well as indirect with customers. Unfortunately, Microsoft does not have such stores and Bets Buy is not the easiest place where one can create a new product category.
It’s not going to happen. Microsoft can dream about the tablet bonanza all they want. They could spend a billion dollars advertising them and do no better than throwing the cash in a bonfire. They could give away a million of them for free and they’d just be running Android and be for sale for real money on Ebay or stuffed in a drawer with all the other Windows tablets.
We’ve had fifteen years of Windows tablets in every configuration from every manufacturer. The Windows 7 tablets from Archos were even out before the iPad. We don’t need a market survey to see how this went. It went nowhere. People don’t want a tablet with Windows.
I don’t care what maxipad, apple, or even if that Fascist-Dictator jobs dies I have no desire for rotten fruit. I am looking forward to a PC based tablet.
I wish Microsoft would make, brand and fully control a Tablet, but then the fruity company and others would cry.
The same applies to a phone, MS needs to make, brand and control a Zune Phone too.