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Going Metro: Seesmic’s CTO, Marco Kaiser, Explains the Windows 8 Tablet and OS

Written by: Liza Sperling on September 21, 2011.

 

Seesmic‘s CTO, Marco Kaiser, and Director, John Yamasaki, spent last week at Microsoft’s BUILD Conference and were among the first developers to get their hands on the Windows 8 tablet and OS.

During our team meeting, we sized up the device and were slightly confused  - this tablet does not look like an iPad or Android tablet. As Marco pointed out, that is the point.

In the video below, Loic Le Meur, Seesmic’s CEO, interviews Marco to make sense of the Microsoft news and to understand how a developer sizes up the Windows 8 tablet and OS:

As Marco points out in the video, the Windows 8 tablet offers developers features that iPad and Android currently do not offer: the ability to code in many different languages, the Metro UI and intra-application capabilities on a single device. It is not really a tablet, but a device with the convenience of a touch screen and mobility coupled with the features of a PC, like the keyboard, mouse, and stylus included with the tablet. As Marco explains, this “multi-purpose device” will make coding or number-crunching on a tablet a different experience. What’s more, the Metro apps for the tablet blur the line between mobile apps and computers apps.

It will take time for developers to explore the device and OS and form their opinions. Unlike consumers, developers have a more systematic approach to evaluating news, and a lot of in-depth analysis is sure to follow.

Posted by Liza Sperling at 08:03:34 PM in Events, Tech, Windows, Windows Phone 7

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    Windows 8 shows great promise. The GUI itself looks very much like Windows Phone 7.

  • http://twitter.com/nippotam nippotam

    which hardware spec do you have (an amazon link to the tablet demoed ?)

  • http://twitter.com/nippotam nippotam

    which hardware spec do you have (an amazon link to the tablet demoed ?)

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    good

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    Looking forward to seeing this …and using.

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    Looking forward to seeing this …and using.

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    It is a demo model, not net available to the public. Stay tuned!

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