On a tablet, Windows 8 and the full-screen Metro-style apps work very well.
On the regular $500 Surface tablet, Windows 8 makes no sense at all.
Blend lets you connect your iPad, Android tablet, Windows PC, or Mac to your BlackBerry via USB, Wi-Fi, or cellular networks and access your BBM messages, email accounts, calendar and other things without picking up your phone.
If you buy a small device, with a screen size of 9 inches or less, either phone or tablet, Windows is free.
Windows 10 will also introduce "universal" apps, which can run on Windows PCs, tablets, Windows Phone and the Xbox One games console.
All of them will do email and internet, as will all the various smartphones, tablets, Windows 2-in-1s and convertibles, all-in-one desktop PCs and even Chromebooks.
As consumers turn to smartphones and tablets, Windows is fading – as will Microsoft's Office suite, which is being shifted to a cloud-based subscription service rather than a PC-based application.
On Wednesday, Microsoft took the wraps off its latest operating system for computers and tablets, Windows 8, which mimics the look and feel of the company's new software for phones.
For validation, an empirical study was conducted to compare the prevalent OSs equipped in tablets: Windows 8, iOS 6, and Android 4.2, as the stimuli.
But this slate is plagued by the same fundamental flaw as the vast majority of the current tablets: Windows.
