14 DAY TRIAL // Microsoft seems very confident on the perspectives its Windows operating system has to offer, and claims that it will be able to bring the platform to new areas as soon as Windows 8 becomes available.
During a company's shareholders' meeting yesterday, Steve Ballmer, Microsoft CEO, confirmed that Windows 8 will soon arrive on both tablet PCs and phones, while continuing to be used on desktop PCs.
“We are in the Windows era — we are, and we always will be,” Ballmer reportedly stated, answering to a question regarding the world moving to the 'post PC era.'
Moreover, he offered some more info on the products that will soon get a taste of Windows, and mentioned phones as well, a recent article on SFGate reads.
“We are driving Windows down to the phone with Windows 8,” he said.
Some of the previous rumors on the upcoming OS suggested that it might draw the line between the desktop platform and the mobile client even thinner than it might already be, and Ballmer's sayings appear to confirm that.
Windows 8 and Windows Phone 8 will essentially be the same OS, though they will feature optimizations making them fit for the specific products they are aimed at.
In other words, Microsoft is betting big on Windows, being set to make it available on devices that will fulfill almost every part of people's daily lives.
According to Ballmer, “through the power of Windows, the PC will be a tablet machine, will be a reading machine, will be a note-taking machine.”
The PC has evolved impressively during the past decades, and has already proven that it has the power to adapt, Ballmer said.
However, with the entire world moving towards the mobile space lately, the PC will certainly meet new challenges, some of which might not be mounted.
Perhaps this is also the reason why Microsoft is making a big push in the mobile space with the launch of Windows Phone and with the latest development in the Windows Phone area, where it recently partnered with Nokia, the largest smartphone maker until only several months ago.