{"id":5162,"date":"2012-12-19T12:52:55","date_gmt":"2012-12-19T12:52:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.journeytothecloud.com\/?p=2428"},"modified":"2012-12-19T12:52:55","modified_gmt":"2012-12-19T12:52:55","slug":"apple-microsoft-and-windows-8","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/apple-microsoft-and-windows-8\/","title":{"rendered":"Apple, Microsoft and Windows 8"},"content":{"rendered":"

I\u2019ve been using Windows 8 for my main work laptop since slightly before it came out and wanted to share my experience and opinion of this new operating system with everyone. <\/span><\/p>\n

I think this is going to be a great operating system if you have a touchscreen, tablet or mobile device. \u00a0I have recently seen some of the cool new devices that support it from HP<\/a>, Dell<\/a> and others and I love how light and portable they are.<\/p>\n

There is no doubt in my mind that Apple<\/a> has had an irreversible impact on our daily home and business lives.\u00a0 Windows has been the dominant way that most people interact with computers and the Internet up until a few years ago.\u00a0 Today you have many more options.\u00a0 You can check your tweets on your phone in the subway, text your wife while driving home (bad idea, but you can), surf the internet from your phone, iPad, Kindle Fire, Google Nexus 7, Laptop, TV or even your desktop.\u00a0 There are many more options to stay connected and get your work done.<\/p>\n

Windows 8 from Microsoft<\/a> is now part of this trend and is a leap forward for Microsoft.\u00a0 It is much faster on my traditional laptop than Windows 7 was because it is optimized for laptops and other systems that don\u2019t have the power of the latest Intel CPU and tons of memory.\u00a0 The Start Screen (formally called Metro) is a better way to interact with your touch screen device than the traditional Windows desktop is.\u00a0 The old Windows desktop is still available so you still have that option for your laptop or desktop that do not have a touch screen interface.<\/p>\n

HP, Dell and other companies have also developed new hardware to take advantage of Windows 8.\u00a0 They have slim, light and powerful Ultrabooks with touchscreens that are simply amazing.\u00a0 I have also seen some laptops with touchscreens that have detachable displays that turn them into a tablet-like device.\u00a0 This is a refreshing and interesting option for a new computer rather than the familiar computer that is \u201cthe same as the one I had before but faster.\u201d<\/p>\n

Apple started all of this with their iPad and MacBook Air.\u00a0 Now we have many more options and can work anywhere, anytime and with cool new systems. Are you currently utilizing any of these new technologies? What are your thoughts?<\/p>\n

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I\u2019ve been using Windows 8 for my main work laptop since slightly before it came out and wanted to share my experience and opinion of this new operating system with everyone. I think this is going to be a great operating system if you have a touchscreen, tablet or mobile device. \u00a0I have recently seen…Read More »<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":26,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[181,182],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5162","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-miscellaneous-it","category-windows-8"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5162","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/26"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5162"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5162\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5162"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5162"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5162"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}