Windows 8 beta for tablets at September PDC?

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本人根据泄漏的资料和的猜测。

1. Windows 8 Tablet 会是个 Full Desktop OS， 当然Tablet version 是会有优化过的， 也可能会有一些定制功能。
2. 可以在 Classic 和 Metro UI 之间切换。 Windows 8 本身就包含2个UI - Classic 和 Metro。我推测在Windows 8 PC中也可以切换到Metro。 Tablet 上购买的App， PC上一样可用，反之亦然。
3. 文件无缝共享。 用过WP7+Zune 的同学都体验过，这种方式有多么的自然和方便。
4. Live Skydrive，和已经建立的其他Live 服务，及 Live Mesh。 会将设备间的共享带上新的台阶。
5. Kinect 技术被包含在Windows 8之中， 同时被用于PC 和 Tablet中。动态感应扑捉会将目前的触摸变得过时。
6. Windows 8 直接支持 ARM
7. Microsoft Surface 技术可能会一定程度的用在Tablet 和 Phone 上。

目前就这些，暂时想不出别的了。



You don't need us to tell you what you already know in your gut to be true: Redmond is working hard on its tablet strategy. How embarrassing is it for Microsoft, the company that pioneered tablets and the 7-inch UMPC, to be completely absent from the conversation in 2010 and 2011? That could change in September. Microsoft watcher Mary Jo Foley recently shared the slide above which she believes to be 99.99 percent genuine. The timeline shows the major milestone dates for a Windows 8 (aka, "Windows Next") release -- an OS that M. JoFo believes to be focused on tablets (aka, "Lap PCs" in Microsoft parlance) with its purpose-built touch-centric design. According to the slide, we're looking at an M2 milestone this month followed by M3 in July or August. Foley says that would put Microsoft on track for a Windows 8 beta release right around Microsoft's Professional Developers Conference (PDC) event in September followed by a second beta in 2012 before being released to manufacturing around the summer of 2012 -- just like we heard early last year and just in time for Dell's Hancock tablet. There are still many open questions including Microsoft's ARM vs. Intel priorities and how the company plans to scale across the enterprise and the "workhorse PC" and "Family Hub PC" in the home. Hit the ZDNet link below for a deeper read or better yet, head on over to TechRepublic where Mary Jo Foley put together an excellent webcast outlining Microsoft's tablet strategy in much more detail.

From what I have heard, it's going to be full-on Windows, with an optional Metro interface for tablets (and enforced Metro UI for phones).

If that is indeed the case, then they're onto a huge winner. This is exactly what everyone wanted Apple to do with the iPad (and not this jumbo iOS lark). Imagine the power and back catalogue of a full desktop OS, optimised for and combined with the interface and app collection of a phone or tablet? I'm seriously excited that a company might *finally* be pursuing this possibility. I hope they do it, and do it right. Then other companies will follow suit.

I guess it could also mean an end the fifty-gajillion different versions of Windows too, which is certainly a concept that needs to be shot dead.