There are more than 80 tablets standing to be displayed and announced at the Consumers Electronics Show (CES) 2011. It looks like a tablet revolution is heading very near. Despite of all the eagerness and enthusiasm for tablets, Microsoft’s tablets, since launch in 2000s, are damned. The main reason to that the trend is changing to touch rather to inking. However, Microsoft has enjoyed an era and I think the era is over. Or say era was over the day iPad from apple launched.
iPad came with huge difference and set a craze for consumers. The iPad was a limited-use or say restricted to some purposes like photo-viewing, music, videos and movies, etc. But the tsunami after that came from other manufacturers is not bound to limited uses. They are more than just tablets and create mass appeal in the consumers.
Microsoft has planned to push its Windows touch tablet in the CES so that it could compete with iPad and a torrent of Android-powered tablets to be announced at the CES. But neither can be pushed backward with weird Windows tablets as till now only Windows 7 has touched the high level approach for touch devices and that is not enough for tablets. Microsoft may come with Windows 8 for tablets but it is years away. So for the CES, anything left for Microsoft to show off?
Microsoft really needs to upgrade its Windows Phone 7 in order to make it capable of running on tablets too. To compete with android tablets, Windows Phone 7 is a better idea than to put Windows XP or 7 to tablets. Windows XP creates a mess when on tablet and Windows 7 is not totally customized to handle touch input. Applications and programs is another big reason of Windows tablets to fail as most desktop programs for windows do not run on tablets. And programs for Windows are written in a manner so that they can be controlled with a mouse and keyboard but not by touch. Hence, Microsoft needs a new platform for tablets or to release the code of its OS in order to enhance its capabilities.
