Cunning?
It looks like a pretty extensive Power Point presentation by Microsoft, explaining the plans for its next operating system - Windows 8 - to what appears to be HP, has made its way onto the web.
The blog Win7vista.com seems to have been the first to publish the files, but Microsoft Kitchen is the first to write an extensive analysis of their contents.
The strongest theme of the presentations is a desire to accommodate novel PC form factors and emulate the software experience supplied by Apple. In fact Microsoft seems pretty obsessed with trying to out-Apple, Apple. Good luck with that.
So the three form factors focused on are the slate (iPad), laptop and all-in-one (iMac). Furthermore, there are slides looking specifically at what makes Apple so successful, with the emphasis on aesthetics and intuitive software. Is it just us, or are those the things Apple has been doing well for decades?
Other things covered are a ‘Windows Store' app store, the use of facial recognition to log on - something that is expected to be quicker than ever - and a general focus on enabling OEMs to differentiate their Windows 8-based products more extensively than before. Also covered are Internet Explorer 9 and Windows Live Essentials 2011.
