See Windows 8 tablets in June?

By Athima Chansanchai

Microsoft may introduce its Tablet Windows 8 in June, if a reliable source is internal.

Microsoft Insider source of Business writer Matt Rosoff said that "the company hopes to show his new Windows 8 design for tablets by the end of its fiscal year in June," and that "Microsoft is taking a more Apple-like approach to this time around the design of interfacciae will also be using concepts from ' Metro ' developed for Windows Phone 7. "

Hmmm, more "Apple-like"? Maybe you take some cues from iPad 2, which is slated for introduction at the Apple event tomorrow.

The timing of the announcement, if it is done, it would align with Computex Taipei, the great fair which runs from 31 May to 4 June. It would also align with a similar program that Microsoft followed when they debuted for Win 7. Mary Jo Foley of ZDNet predicts that the coding phase should have begun yesterday, which would put a debut date more like September with a Dell tablet ready for market by January 2012.

A Microsoft spokesperson stated that the company does not have information to share at this time.

Apple iPad debuted in more than a year ago, at the end of January 2010, and at the end of last year, we saw the Samsung Galaxy Tab arrive as the first major competitor to Android. In Las Vegas, January, CES spit tablets as a trader shoots out cards with the Motorola Xoom bringing the pack as the closest thing to an iPad competitor. Suffice it to say, Windows 8 must be something really special to emerge in this increasingly crowded shindig.

Thus, the idea of a Windows 8 excite you at all?

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