Windows 10: Microsoft’s Windows 10 devices see growth in competitive tablet market

According to research firm Strategy Analytics, Microsoft is seeing growth in the tablet but Apple is regaining market share over its competitors. As always things aren’t looking much better in the tablet business. The tablet market continues to be impacted by a few major trends happening in other markets.

The report adds that the tablet market fell 6% in Q2 2018 and this is apparently putting pressure on revenues as the particular market is falling for 14 straight quarters. Around 40% of the tablet market share is contributed by Microsoft, Apple, Huawei and each company showed shipment growth in the quarter.

The tablet market is now extremely competitive and many Android vendors are losing share and revenue.

“Apple is using its market size and brand power to put pressure on its Windows and Android competitors,” Chirag Upadhyay, Senior Research Analyst added.



It’s worth noting that Windows shipments fell 2% year-on-year to 5.8 million units in Q2 2018 from 5.9 million in Q2 2017 but there’s a 1% increase in shipments versus the previous quarter. The back-to-school and enterprise would also help this segment. Microsoft is doing much better than expected, for example, the new Surface Pro and Book 2 did better than expected this quarter.

It has posted double-digit year-on-year growth since Q3 2016.

“After several quarters of softness in the Windows Detachable 2-in-1 segment, we are seeing a bounce back due to enterprise demand and a good product refresh cycle,” Eric Smith, Director – Connected Computing said.

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Microsoft to take on Apple with own Windows 8 tablet?

i found something that interesting
from here
Microsoft will announce its own tablet next week at an event in Los Angeles, according to reports, taking a page from Apple's playbook.
If true, this is not the typical Microsoft business model; usually it leaves device announcements to device makers. The PC industry is the classic example of this.
And, so far, that has been the case for Windows 8 and Windows RT tablets. Companies like Acer and Asus demonstrated Windows 8 tablets and hybrids at Computex last week, for instance.
But a report at The Wrap and another at AllThingsD say Microsoft has other plans.
Microsoft reportedly concluded that it must have its own tablet and is involved in the hardware design too. The Wrap reported it is a "Microsoft-manufactured tablet," that would "put the company in direct competition with giant rival Apple."




Indeed, if true, it would. Apple designs both the software and hardware and therefore is able to achieve a level of quality control over a product that often eludes Microsoft and its hardware partners.
A Microsoft tablet has the potential to rankle Windows device makers, too. Hewlett-Packard, Dell, Lenovo, Toshiba, Nokia and a long list of other PC makers are working on scores of Window 8 and Windows RT tablets and hybrids. Many are likely to debut when Microsoft release Windows 8 later this year.

 

Best windows 8 tablet?

I've apple ipod touch 4g, google nexus 4, hp envy 17 3d, so using all 3 OS - iOS, android, windows 7.

I dont have any tablet yet..thinking to buy windows 8 tablet..

i like hp envy x2 much..tablet cum notebook..

but microsoft surface and many other good tablets in market and i dont have idea..

suggest me best windows 8/?RT tablets..

thx..

 

Microsoft Expediting Windows 8 Tablet Launch to January 2012

Tablet PCs came and went, but "tablets" as a category began with the Apple iPad. Merely weeks after its launch, the rattled PC OEM industry announced plans for their tablets, some being ARM-based and driven by Google's touch-phone optimized Android OS, and some using x86 processors and Windows 7. Unfortunately, Windows 7 based tablets aren't cutting it in the market, and the problem is with the user-interface (UI) itself. While Windows 7 has a touchscreen/pen software framework, its UI is more PC-like. Menu items, buttons with applications, are not very optimized for a comfortable touch-only input device.

Hence, Microsoft seems to be expediting the release of Windows 8 for Tablets, and the software giant plans to do that as early as by CES 2012. Only the tablet version of Windows 8 will be released then, not the PC version.

On the cards are a user interface that's completely optimized for tablet devices, that can make do with limited hardware resources, while still being highly functional and productive. What's more, Windows 8 Tablet will support ARM architecture, as well as x86. So even as Intel frantically works out an x86-based chip with a tiny footprint, Windows 8 Tablet can use any of the fastest ARM chips in the market.

Market analysts still think Microsoft is lagging way behind in the tablet software race, to Apple's iOS and Google's Android. Even CES 2012 will be too late, opines one analyst. “If 2011 is the year of the tablet wars, Microsoft will be awfully late suiting up for that battle,” said Michael Gartenberg, a New Jersey-based analyst for research firm Gartner Inc. “It’s not a good position to be in.”

Source: Businessweek