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Users of the coming Windows 8 operating system will be able to switch between a traditional desktop PC user interface and a tablet-friendly look patterned after Microsoft's Windows Phone platform.

Some industry observers clearly have been worried about the dumbing down of the next Windows OS release. However, users who highly value the full-blown desktop experience will have the full set of PC capabilities at their fingertips, said Steven Sinofsky, the president of Microsoft's Windows division, writing in a blog.

"If you want to, you can seamlessly switch between Metro style apps and the improved Windows desktop," Sinofsky wrote. "Essentially, you can think of the Windows desktop as just another app."

Windows 8 tablet users who prefer Windows Phone's Metro-style UI for accomplishing tasks on the fly will never even need to see the platform's desktop version.

"We won't even load it -- literally the code will not be loaded -- unless you explicitly choose to go there," Sinofsky said.

Moreover, the new Metro-style UI "is much more than the visual design -- [it is] fast and fluid, immersive, beautiful, and app-centric," Sinofsky said. And tablet users who do not need the full-blown Windows desktop experience won't have to comply with its more stringent memory, battery life and hardware requirements, he added.

The Innovator's Dilemma

Microsoft has to negotiate an innovator's dilemma with Windows 8, said Al Hilwa, director of applications software development at IDC.

"They have to create a product which is appealing to an apparently large segment of the user population who loves a simpler touch-first approach to computing, while maintaining Window's existing user-base that is comfortable with the precise control a keyboard, a mouse and a file-oriented interface provides," Hilwa said.

Just how Microsoft will go about accomplishing the delicate balancing act of having both Windows 8 user interfaces...

Are you looking for an alternative to the iPad? We might have just found one for you. If you have been following the tablet market, you know that there are now three choices, Apple's iPad, Rim's Blackberry Playbook Tablet, and then a whole list of tablets running Android like the iDolian.

Android has finally proven to be stiff competition to the iPhone and its various versions. But does the 2.3 version named Gingerbread actually suggest that it has brought Apple to the knees?

August 31, 2011 -- Web hosting provider Korea Server Hosting announced on Wednesday it has partnered with R1Softto offer its customers Continuous Data Protection data backup and recovery software. The move comes a few months after hosting providers Servers Australia, PTisp and NetRevenda deployed R1Soft CDP.