Statements and Windows 8 launch event in Madrid

Yesterday, the 26th, Microsoft Ibérica summoned the media to a press conference prior to the publication of windows8, to which XatakaWindows was invited. Followed by an event organized by Fnac, which de alt with an opening night with very special offers for the first 200 people to buy a Windows 8 device and with a “ soiree ” full of celebrities.

The most succulent statements

Upon arriving at the place where the press conference was to be held, the first surprise arrived for all attendees, a long table full of devices of all sizes and shapesLater they would confirm that the support of the hardware industry has been massive and that the journey of the new operating system begins with more than 1000 types of computers that have been certified by Microsoft to carry Windows8 in their guts.

Then the president of Microsoft Spain and various speakers discussed the advantages and benefits of the new operating system, always with examples on tablets, and offer us the second headline when talking about huge number of applications published in Spain in the Store, and there is a queue to pass the certification process.

Regarding this certification process, María Garaña commented that it is an open process that, unlike other platforms, is not as restrictive and allows a level of freedom at the level of the Android Market but withmuch greater quality control That in their words.

Finally, as we have already published in XatakaWindows, the headline of the day was when, in response to questions, I announced that the Surface had no arrival date in our country. That we were not within the 3 countries that will receive the device: England, Germany and France. And while we're a big market for Microsoft, we should wait for a second wave to see the ñ on a Surface keyboard.

After the press conference, they were allowed to touch and manipulate the windows8 devices for a while and, in a hurry and running, they disassembled, packed and took them to Fnac.

The night opening event of Fnac

This event has had two different parts and a great contrast. On the one hand, the press was able to try and fail each and every one of the dozens of devices of all shapes, sizes and configurations deployed.Supported by support people, full of patience, who put up with dozens of questions and prevented too much abuse of the devices.

The fact that hybrids are the queens of Windows 8 hardware, there is no doubt. But it excites my little geeky heart to play between my fingers with a very light hybrid tablet with a Tegra quad-core microprocessor running Windows 8 RT at full throttle. The very light ultrabooks, similar to the current ones, but with a touch screen that allows unknown ways of interacting, if unknown until today.

Next we have the giant 23” screens that are all-in.one PCs, or huge 21” tablets that make sense of the word “portable” again. Along with them, another type of hybrid that hides the keyboard under the screen, or that has two screens, one external touch screen and the other internal static.

The truth is that the inventiveness and revulsion that the hardware industry is showing I have only seen in the early days of 8-bit computers, when only the Imagination was the limit of the shapes and capabilities of those rudimentary computing devices.

The second part of the event began with the arrival of the famous and famous, something that I still do not fully understand what they were doing there, and culminated with the entry of the two hundred lucky soaked who have been able to acquire a computer with Windows8 with a discount of €180.

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