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Windows' popularity will prevail, Android still in its infancy: Microsoft
By siliconindia
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Wednesday, 02 June 2010, 19:40 IST
Bangalore: According to a high-ranking executive of Microsoft, Windows operating system (OS) will continue to be the most popular OS on desktops, notebooks and slates, although there are manufacturers, who have decided to use Google Android as the operating system on their tablets. These new tablets will be introduced during Computex Taipei 2010 trade-show, reports Anton Shilov for XbitLabs.
In an interview with Wall Street Journal, Steve Guggenheimer, Corporate Vice President, Microsoft, said that when notebooks were introduced three years ago, 95 percent of them didn't have Windows as the OS. But after three years, Windows OS is running 95 percent of them.
Though, Microsoft helped tablet PCs to become valuable tools for professionals many years ago, due to lack of infrastructure to consumer content on them, the company could not manage to take tablets to the mainstream market.
While the developers of slates are working on new services that allow buying or downloading new content or software onto slates, Microsoft still sticks to its traditional Windows-based infrastructure, which sometimes fails to solve simple problems. Adding to it, since Windows did not support ARM processors, makers like Acer, Dell and HP are to use Android.
However, there is no such change in the hardware and software market. Advanced Micro Devices is going to introduce x86 chips for tablets in the next year. Similarly, Intel is also working on similar projects with first results due later this year.
Computer manufacturers are currently experimenting with Android, but Microsoft's support for Windows 7 will be valued more, claims Guggenheimer.
