Three years after the release of Windows 7 so that it has just become the operating system most widely used before the "ancestor" Windows XP, Microsoft messes with all its new Windows 8. Designed to run both on the PC tablets and architecture as well as Intel or AMD classic (x86 and x64) than in ARM architecture with its special version Windows RT, it upsets many codes interface unprecedented.
The bet is that Microsoft dared to take the risk to change the habits of hundreds of millions of users "traditional" Windows to invest the tablet market where he needed a different system but Windows 7 also differs Android and iOS, the mobile operating systems from Apple and Google stars in this market. Note that for smartphones, Microsoft chose to separately develop Windows Phone 8, not going to do Windows 8 too big a gap from computer to phone would have further increased the risk of failure.
This potential failure will not the number of PCs in Windows 8 passed because they are now the norm. Microsoft has also announced a rate of diffusion of a million copies per day of new software after its launch on October 26. It will eventually feel the tablet market dominated by far by the Apple iPad and where the newcomer will have to jostle his hole. Above all, it is in its popularity - and therefore its life expectancy - will tell whether Windows 8 will be the happiness or misery of Microsoft. For him to defy statistics that say that an operating system from Redmond two is missed, the right systems software were followed less successful (after 98 Millennium, Vista after XP). Windows 8 coming after the excellent Windows 7 is already doomed?
