Faced with declining sales, the PC market needs Windows 8 | The Manila Bulletin Newspaper Online

Faced with declining sales, the PC market needs Windows 8 | The Manila Bulletin Newspaper Online: "MANILA, Philippines -- Microsoft’s next-generation operating system, Windows 8, is not just another version of the software company’s market-leading product. It marks a major, some would say radical, change for the computing platform.

With the new OS, expected to be for release in 2012, Microsoft takes a 180-degree turn, changing the way its bestselling software works and interacts with its users. From a desktop-bound platform, Windows has now become a lighter version of itself, light enough to run even on systems that are not exactly hot rod.

In fact, when Microsoft provided a peek into the beta version of the software, a first-generation netbook and some low-spec PCs were used to demo some of its capabilities and features. Imagine, a Microsoft OS running its full version on a lowly, low-capabilities netbook?

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