APPLE AND MICROSOFT WILL FIGHT IN 2012 WITH THEIR NEW SYSTREMS

This year is going to repeat 2009, when Microsoft and Apple have faced the last time with new operating systems, point out analysts. At the time, Microsoft launched Windows 7 (his last system upgrade), and brought Apple Snow Leopard ( Mac OS X 10.6).Yesterday, 16/2, Apple has begun distributing a preview version of Mac OS X 10.8, aka Mountain Lion, developer, and stated that the final version arrives in July this year.Meanwhile, most analysts agree that Microsoft is preparing to launch Windows 8 this year, probably in the last quarter. The company postponed the release version of what he calls "Consumer Preview" system for the next day on February 29.

"It seems that the two companies have the religion of the mobile operating system," said Technology Business Research analyst Ezra Gottheil. Gottheil cited the similarities between the strategies of Microsoft and Apple, noting that both companies show strong influences from their mobile systems.

"It's interesting to see that the two companies are making big bets on this year with their operating systems," said Gottheil. "Both recognize that the format took off, the tablets and smartphones, requires an upgrade of the graphical user interface with 25-year-old who has dominated the PC"

In the case of Microsoft, Windows 8 interface brings a completely new opening - called "Metro" - that takes a lot borrowed from the visual style of Windows Phone. Although the company maintain a traditional desktop Windows version 8, has aggressively promoted the Metro not only as the basis for the Start screen (Startup), but also for a generation of applications that give more importance to the touch than the double click and keyboard.

The Mountain Lion represents a "revolution" less for Apple, since the company already began to borrow elements of iOS last year when it released Mac OS X 10.7 Lion. But the Mountain Lion include a wide variety of applications and services iOS, such as notifications and reminders, as well as new names for old Mac applications like iCal and Address Book (Agenda) to be equal to the terms used in the mobile system of the company.