![]() ![]() The part of the Appleverse that's changing the least is the one most directly comparable to Windows: OS X. (OS X 10.7 Lion is scheduled to arrive in July iOS 5 and most of iCloud are due "this fall.") Scarcity of information wasn't a problem: if anything, the company unloaded so much new stuff that figuring it all out is going to take a while. It might just be waiting to spill the beans until September, when it will release more information about Windows 8 and probably a preview version at a developer conference called Build.Īs for Apple, Steve Jobs and friends spent a couple of densely packed hours on the morning of June 6 at its WWDC conference in San Francisco walking through the next versions of OS X (the operating system used by Macs) and iOS (the one that powers the iPhone, iPod Touch and iPad), as well as a new Internet service called iCloud. That Microsoft didn't share any details on these and other major issues doesn't mean it doesn't have coherent answers. Will they be willing to take a giant step into the post-PC age? We'll see! Windows users are such a conservative bunch that 10-year-old Windows XP remains the world's favorite operating system. And without a critical mass of software tailored to take advantage of Windows 8's new features, there will be no reason to make the upgrade. How will software evolve to reflect the new interface? Popular apps such as e-mail and spreadsheets will need more than a minor rethinking to go touch-only. (Watch TIME's video "Windows Phone 7 Tips and Tricks.") But Windows 8 will also need to run well on hundreds of millions of garden-variety computers. What sort of computers will run it best? I suspect that Microsoft has iPad-style tablets and all-in-one PCs akin to HP's TouchSmarts in mind.
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