Things that Microsoft should address before bombarding the market with Windows 8 – Part 4

5. The late arrival to the market

The main struggle that Microsoft will face in both smartphone and tablet market is the timing of arrival. WP7 is indeed one of the best software in the market and due to its light-weight nature, no heavy circuitry is required as well. That makes Windows-based smartphones somewhat cheap and affordable in the market.

The reason why WP could not succeed in the market was the late arrival. Since the release of iPhone and the addition of Google to the equation, the smartphone industry has been dominated by these two operating systems.

These two tech goliaths have also attracted most of the developers. There are millions of apps available in the market for both iOS and Android but MS has barely reached a mark of thousands. Therefore, the best advice for MS and Research In Motion, for that matter, is to attract more developers.

If Microsoft succeeds in luring app devs to WP 7 and Windows 8 than there is chance for there survival, as sales are no longer success point, after sale services including applications is the one that makes the difference now.

Metro’s real point, of course, isn’t for desktop users. It’s Microsoft’s last gasp attempt to be a player on tomorrow’s computers: smartphones and tablets. If Microsoft was bringing something truly revolutionary to mobile devices, or they were still able to strong-arm original equipment manufacturers (OEM)s into loading Windows on their devices, I think they’d have a shot at the mobile space. Neither is true.

Add it up. The majority of Windows users have only just switched over from XP to Windows 7 in, at best, November 2011. Microsoft is now asking for its users to switch to a platform with no significant improvements, a radically different interface, and which is very likely to have few applications. The result? Window 8 will be dead on arrival.

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