Partnership Samsung – Microsoft in Windows 8 Tablet to compete with iPad

If it is true tablet Samsung will further adopt the Windows platform 8, the means is a first for the cooperation between the Korean company’s tablet with the software giant from the United States. So far, both Microsoft and Samsung declined to confirm this news.

The emergence of Windows 8 have been circulating the past few months. A document leaked in June, calling Microsoft is developing an operating system that supports tablet devices and has been optimized for low-power ARM processor.

Microsoft is also known to have long been eager to challenge Apple’s dominance and a variety of tablets issued Android-based Google. In July last year for example, Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer said that creating a tablet is a “task number one”, even after that there was no follow-up of the statement.

Meanwhile, Samsung has released a smartphone with operating system Windows 7 Phone, but so far the tab is still relying on the Galaxy line for Android operating system.

An analyst, JP Morgan believes if the iPad will still exist, although various tablets Windows 8 will be released in late 2012.

“Apple will continue to dominate and become a world leader in the tablet marketplace,” said Mark Moskowitz, a spokesman for Apple.

“No other tablets that offer the highest volume of sales of tablets in the international markets in addition to the iPad,” said some other analysis in the notes to investors by AppleInsider.

“We are still awaiting the emergence of a tablet player number two, although this can not happen until the release of Windows 8 in 2012,” said the analyst, as quoted by TG Daily, Friday (9/9/2011).

Mark Moskowitz predict if a tablet made by Amazon could be interesting tools that will strengthen the tablet market other than Apple’s, seeing that the giant online shopping site that already has a big name and good distribution skills.

In many cases, Moskowitz added that if the entire tablet other than the iPad forced competing for second place and ready to compete with products from Apple tablet, so that competition drives down prices by 12.1 percent in 2011 and an additional rebate 7 , 2 percent in the tablets would happen in 2012.

iPad popularity, making Moskowitz raise estimates for the number of tablet shipments in 2011 could reach 51.9 million units.