Microsoft’s Windows redesign basically includes the introduction of the latest version of Windows, the Windows 8 and the company has already showed the trial version ahead of its actual introduction in coming autumn.
Microsoft claims the redesign to be fit for the next generation of high-powered tablets. But, initial review of the new operating system on the existing hardware does not seem satisfactory.
As per the company, millions of people are already using a downloaded pre-release version of Windows 8 on their PCs, laptops and touchscreen-devices.
Although the look and feel of the Metro style of the version has been praised most of the reviews fears regarding how the people, who are deliberately oriented on a PC, that are used to a mouse feel will get accustomed to it because they will have to struggle a lot for the same.
Again, the new Metro interface runs only on programs written for it. So, users have to go back to the traditional desktop to avail facilities like listening to music on Apple's iTunes.
Forrester Research analyst David Johnson is worried as he finds Metro apps and apps running in the normal desktop don't have any knowledge of each other, but there is no easy way to navigate between them. It is also expected that Microsoft might introduce a tablet under its own brand name most probably with the redesign.
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