Live: Microsoft revealing more Surface details

2. -box- posted on 25 Oct 2012, 12:37 6 1

Microsoft and Android have always offered more bang for the buck, if only because apple has wanted more bucks for less bang (used to offer more bang, but still more bucks)

I'm ready for an Android and Microsoft mobile and desktop OS duopoly, myself.

4. maier9900 posted on 25 Oct 2012, 12:59 4 3

This is about Microsoft's tablet, not Apple and Android. And don't compare Android with Microsoft, they're in two dif. categories as far as the OS. Android doesn't even offer customer 5% of what Surface tablets offer. Windows cannot be compared with android or iOS.

13. dok2005 posted on 25 Oct 2012, 16:30 1 1

well android tablets has alot of potential but as far as window rt based tablet has a little more capability then others on market it lacks behind in apps. at the rate this tech world works. windows will catch up with apps and android will catch up with capability at the same rate. apple will use get one or two more things and try to say its way better then the competition.

15. maier9900 posted on 25 Oct 2012, 16:37 1 0

Well Android tablets will never have full PC softwares like for example Microsoft office or adobe suite or others that run in everyone's computer right now. So Android has a lot of potential but not this kind of potential - The only potential i see Android to have is to become a faster OS. Not even close to windows. Have you had windows 8 running on your PC yet or not, Windows 8 is like Win 7 only that is touch capable and starts dif. than Win 7. But you do exactly what you do in Win 7 with it. Android never.

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17. dok2005 posted on 25 Oct 2012, 16:52 0 0

ok on windows rt i cant run older windows program. with android i cant run them either. you have to wait for the program to optimized for windows 8. android you have to wait for someone to create them. so on that note they in same position. android has alot of developers and apps. windows trying to bring back developers its way and has very little apps. on that note they in same position.

also as side note i still use the windows 8 preview. and it work nice a few my programs wasnt ready for it so i had to ditch them wasnt using them anyways. you still have to remember its a different from windows 8 and windows 8 RT.

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7. AnTuTu posted on 25 Oct 2012, 14:47 2 0

Way to go MS.

9. JeffdaBeat posted on 25 Oct 2012, 15:57 0 4

It's a sad day in nerd land when we start putting Microsoft on the same level as Google and Apple. I don't hate Microsoft...but they haven't been innovative in years.

19. Penny posted on 25 Oct 2012, 20:06 1 0

Not much else I can say other than I believe you are very, sorely mistaken. Google and Apple have both been trotting down their expected evolutionary paths...Microsoft is the only one of the three that has arguably made a change big enough to even be considered a risk. Not only that, but it is a risk that could change the way we think of tablets, and it could change the way we think of notebooks.

Let's not stop there though. Microsoft has been building up to this point and even further for a while, in a manner that has both been visible and very intriguing for those who have had the foresight to follow. Microsoft is heading for a unified OS faster than the Google or Apple, and that is the biggest innovation in mobile software technology we've seen in years.

16. dok2005 posted on 25 Oct 2012, 16:41 1 0

so to explain this simply windows rt doesn't run what we call legacy app. so all those old adobe photoshop and any older program u got saved up or are ready to download most likely will not work unless its optimized for windows 8. while on a full windows 8 device can handle older programers just fine.

12. dok2005 posted on 25 Oct 2012, 16:25 0 0

http://www.engadget.com/2012/10/23/microsoft-surface-rt-review/?utm_source=twitterfeed&utm_medium=twitter

theres your review

18. Savage posted on 25 Oct 2012, 17:21 1 0

Thanks a bunch! RT is a decent device but I'd choose the Pro when it comes out. Imagine plugging a 1 Terabyte HDD in this monster.