Microsoft will offer two main options for its upcoming Windows 8 operating system for PCs: Windows 8 for most consumer and Windows 8 Pro for “tech enthusiasts and business/technical professionals.”
Windows 8 Consumer Preview should run on the same hardware that powers Windows 7 today. According to Microsoft, in general, Windows 8 Consumer Preview should run on a PC with the following:
1 GHz or faster processor
1 GB RAM (32-bit) or 2 GB RAM (64-bit)
16 GB available hard disk space (32-bit) or 20 GB (64-bit)
DirectX 9 graphics device with WDDM 1.0 or higher driver
1024 x 768 minimum screen resolution
Microsoft will also offer Windows RT for smartphones and tablets that run ARM-based chips. Microsoft explained the new Windows 8 names in a blog post.
Windows 8 on ARM, now dubbed Windows RT by Microsoft, will include Word, Excel, PowerPoint, and OneNote applications, according to a chart included in a blog by Microsoft posted yesterday.
Analysts believe tablets running Windows RT will emerge late in 2012, and should be priced somewhere between the starting iPad price of $499 and the Amazon Kindle Fire price of $199.
Meanwhile, Reuters reports that four major European telecom operators are unimpressed by Lumia Windows Phones, describing the Windows Phone devices as overpriced due to their lack of real innovation, glitchy due to early battery life issues, and inadequately supported by Nokia’s own marketing. They don’t believe that Nokia’s Lumia phones are “good enough” to compete with Apple and Android platforms.
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