Windows 8 Tablet-Desktop Unity

Desktop Windows does, but stock windows apps generally don't work well in tablet mode without adaptation. Metro (in the form of Windows Phone 7) is lagging. Windows 8 seems to be something like the two of them running on the same kernel, but unless there are apps on both "sides" that synergize well, the whole may be less than the sum of its parts.

Windows 8 isn't iOS, BB, Palm, or Android. What they're trying to show is that Windows 8 can be the OS on your desktop, your laptop, and your tablet. Microsoft has made it clear that they still consider tablets to be PCs, even if the primary input methods are different.

You didn't read the original article. The story is about microsoft not wanting to fork Windows. They want Windows 8 to work on desktops, and tablets. From the demo videos I saw, Windows 8 switch back and forth between a usable touchscreen UI and the traditional keyboard & mouse UI. That is having your cake and eating it too. And its going to piss consumers off when they think they can use Excel on their new Windows Tablet and instead get an experience akin to picking cactus nettles out of y

Microsoft needs to break Windows 8 Metro away from the desktop and make it tablet only, why is this so hard for them to see?

Wouldn't that make it Apple's Windows 8?

I still think it's a bet... OSX isn't integrated with iOS in the same fashion of Metro/Desktop in Win8 and Android has not a real desktop version to make a comparison here. Microsoft is trying to bring the touch experience to desktops with a keyboard and a mouse and that's very risky.

Users want desktops and tables. They have different UI and that's OK. You operate cars, trucks and excavators in a similar way but not exactly the same way.MS wants to translate its power from desktop monopoly to tablet market. And therefore they play against users.It seems that MS Windows team is too powerful to let smaller teams cannibalize Windows market share. "Innovators Dilemma" case?Personally I would import only tablet features which make sense for desktop OS. For example app sa

I think WP8/W8 integration is rather overblown, but the difference in approaches seems to be that Apple and Google are scaling up phone OSes to a tablet OS, whereas MS seems to be scaling down a desktop OS to a tablet, while simultaneously taking the UI paradigm of their phone OS and scaling it up to tablet/desktop.This means you can dock your Win 8 x86 tablet with a keyboard/mouse and be using the power of full Windows. You can write code for the tablet and debug it from the very same tablet

I wouldn't consider it tablet-specific. More that it has an aspiration to support tablets, like the early days of windows 8.

Windows on the desktop is a known and reliable brand, nobody can deny that. However, Windows on the tablet is an unkown today, and people seem comfortable and used to using a non-Windows OS in their tablets and phones, it's a radically different situation.I think it's a mistake to believe that people will choose Windows 8 in their tablets and phones just because it's Windows. Otherwise it would have worked wonders with Windows CE and Windows Phone, and it didn't. There are other factors in pl