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The Pro will offer the full Windows 8 OS running on an Intel Ivy Bridge CPU (the same chip found in ultrabooks and other laptops). While it won't have the full desktop version of Windows 8, running only the Metro apps available through the Windows app store, it will include a version of Microsoft Office at no additional charge.Ībout three months later, a Windows 8 Pro version of the tablet will follow. The first, running Windows RT - effectively the "light" version of Windows 8 - will launch in the fall, around the same time Windows 8 does, and run on an as-yet-unnamed ARM CPU. Surface tablets, not to be confused with their table-top cousin ( now renamed Microsoft PixelSense), will be available in two versions. In addition to Surface, rumor has it Microsoft is working on its own branded phone device.
But the game has apparently changed with mobile devices. The company has so far avoided irritating manufacturers that churn out Windows PCs, tablets, and phones. Microsoft is breaking with its traditional business model by building and branding its own Surface tablet, effectively competing with its own hardware partners such as Dell, Hewlett-Packard, and Lenovo. And then at the same developer conference, it made its next-generation mobile operating system, Windows Phone 8, official and promised the OS would ship on handsets starting this fall.
Week in review Microsoft stole the tech news spotlight this week, initially by introducing its first Microsoft-branded tablet device, the Surface, which effectively helps it play catch-up in the competitive iPad-led tablet market.