Microsoft has prepared the latest operating system Windows 8 on Tuesday to beat Apple's dominance as the most valuable companies in the world to surpass Microsoft in the past year. Actually, Microsoft officials are not worried about the MacBook or Mac OS X Lion iPad domination but who ruled the market. iPad started out slowly since its debut last year, but thanks to the ingenuity of Apple's offering price from the level of a cheap and strong marketing campaigns, slowly but surely devices it has sold more than 25 million units in less than a year and a half.
More importantly, Apple has set a new category of device is a tablet in the eyes of consumers. Many competitors iPad that comes and goes, but none was able to break the fast growth of the iPad. HP TouchPad Tablet has been surrendered, RIM Playbook tablet lags far behind and had countless Android tablets that slips by the wayside. Until now, no tablet is emerging as a strong competitor iPad. That presents a bit of a big deal and an opportunity for Microsoft to undermine the dominance of Apple in the tablet market, as Microsoft did in the PC market.
The market needs a strong competitor and the competitor's iPad will have to have a strong position to seize half a tablet a growing market share rapidly. The success of Microsoft in the tablet market will increase the value of fresh Microsoft to ease investor concerns in a shrinking PC market growth and set back growth in the future. Therefore, the latest operating system Windows 8 plays an important role because it's new operating system that can run on PCs and tablets.