As there had been rumors about a lot. To the point that the actual date of release of the eagerly awaited Windows 8 was becoming a sort of fetish. There was talk of autumn, of course, but now came the official date: October 26 . A lot in there for those who expect a return with a bang even towards the end of September.

The news post on the official blog of the company’s Redmond, supervised by the spokesman Brandon LeBlanc. On the same date, according to reassure the press, will begin launches of new Pc of various brands that have precisely the new operating system pre installed, including Surface.

Many new Windows 8: the button Start will be replaced by a management system full touch screen friendly baptized Start Screen : from there you will control all functions of the computer. The interface will be the Metro , already seen on mobile devices and precisely designed in optical tapping.

The classic desktop , more or less, will be a sub level of this screen made of huge blocks. A product that promises to be so versatile and multi support. In addition to significantly alter even the ‘ look and feel - and then, if it is the real lesson from Apple – even the image and objectives of the target group.

To upgrade to Windows 8 you can upgrade from 7 to about forty dollars from scratch or buy a new operating system by downloading from the website of Microsoft . Who has instead bought a computer recently, but equipped with Windows 7, you may upgradar lo for fifteen dollars.

Lower figures than in the past, a sign of approaching important giant led by Steve Ballmer to the recovery of larger market share. Even as Apple moves forward: the second and Asymco analyst Horace Dediu, following the PC-Mac challenge for twenty years, says that the distance has been reduced a lot more of a personal computer in twenty hours a Mac