Some companies are very quick to talk about beginnings and endings of eras, but the truth is that even with certain devices, or developments that caused a "hinge effect" on the market, you need a transition time. We have heard a lot of ocasciones Apple representatives say that the PC era was over. Reports of the death of conventional computer have been greatly exaggerated in recent years, but now Microsoft adds a log to the fire by saying that this is not the end of the PC era, but a new era: PC +.

I am part of the generation that saw live and in the abandonment of DOS and jumping to graphical interfaces. Pieces of hardware that were considered essential at the time have been reduced to simple low-cost components. I watched closely how the mobile phone went from a portfolio to achieve the size of a pack of cigarettes. And now, with the remarkable progress of the tablets, the concept of computer is in jeopardy as never before. I will not deny it: I am comfortable with the computer as it is. I know him well, I have control over their hardware and their updates. I can repair, modify and improve it. The idea that everything comes to an end that causes me some concern, but I'm very interested to know what's to come. The tablets have a question. Are they something different and need to be developed in parallel, they replace the computer, or are nothing more than the next step in the evolution of the PC?

The Microsoft Worldwide Partner Conference ended in yesterday. There is usually a conference that teaches great things for the consumer market, but this time was the COO Kevin Turner who decided to play the delicate issue of "post-PC era", and did so with a spicy statement: Apple is wrong. In mid 2010, Steve Jobs stated that the post-PC era had begun, while Tim Cook, currently CEO of the Cupertino giant has not only said that the tablet and the PC are two different things, but does not believe in hybrid formats. For Redmond, Apple is "a great hardware," but the computer is entering the era PC +, an idea based on a 1999 article written by Bill Gates called, "Why the PC will not die." Gates mentioned in this text to anticipate the death of the PC became a kind of "annual ritual" and also speaks of "devices that have not even dreamed of yet." One tablet would be today.



How could it be otherwise, Turner hinted that Windows 8 is a cornerstone for the PC + era, and that's where I think the preacher loses some strength. Windows 8 is a change, and one large, even more than the passing of Windows 3.x to Windows 95 for nearly seventeen years. But the market is not the same, the hardware is not the same, and basically, users are not the same. If the change conveys the feeling of being "good" inmiedato is absorbed, but before the first question listed stocks. And Windows 8, or should I say "the interface Metro", is a sea of ​​doubt. Microsoft is betting nearly himself on the success of Windows 8, but if anything it has taught us both the computer and consumer electronics is that the first of its kind, regardless of whether they succeed or not, always have a sharp edge. It happened to iPhone, iPad happened, and certainly happened to Windows 95 at the time. Windows 8 is, taking into account everything you said Microsoft, the first of its kind, and that system is based PC + era. When we get to October, we'll know who was right.

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