Getting touchy:

The current scenario has shaped up into an open challenge between Apple and Microsoft. The recent news maker, Windows 8 is primarily developed around touch screen laptops, which the late Apple CEO Steve Jobs famously mocked as ‘an ergonomic disaster.’

The release of Windows 8 also has shed some light on Microsoft’s next-gen strategy of trimming the boundary line of operating systems across different platforms. With Windows 8, consumers may get a chance to see a common, touch-based interface across mobile and desktop devices. This tactics has all the potential to put every single one of the Apple officials in distress, as in future, the company may find their operating system rather outdated.

The ‘Human Interface’:

It’s time for the ‘human interface’ stuff to be discussed. For years, Microsoft has been working on a huge project on bringing the Kinect to the PC. With the release of Windows 8, it seems the circumstances and the conditions have come to full circle, for a stunning iteration of the Kinect with Windows 8. Maybe in the future, we may get to see Kinect as an embedded feature in Windows 8.

On the other hand, Apple is clearly playing a catch-up game. Even with these many issues around, Apple still seems to be in a bitter confusion on selecting the right path between a single OS or different operating systems for different platforms.