Tablet Contender - Microsoft Surface

A couple of my colleagues are using the Microsoft Surface tablet.  There are two versions of the tablet, Surface RT and Surface Pro.  Today, the Surface RT costs $340 and the Pro costs $799.  A comparison of the two tablets is at http://www.microsoft.com/surface/en-us/which-surface-is-right-for-you

Microsoft continues to have the majority of the operating system market.  The Surface tablet really can replace the, now old-fashioned, desktop computer.  The Microsoft Surface tablet is a giant step towards Bill Gates initial vision of putting a computer on every desktop, except it goes further.  The tablet is more like putting a computer on every laptop.

Microsoft acknowledges that the operating system (OS) takes a considerable amount of storage at http://www.microsoft.com/surface/en-us/storage 

The size of the operating system is where the Google  OS is so different.  The Google OS is a component of the web browser.  When you turn on a Google Chromebook, it takes less than 5 seconds for the home screen to appear.

Blog Info for Mountain Lion OS on the Mac

Mountain Lion operating system (OS) for the Mac was released on the 24th of July.  So far it is getting rave reviews.  A colleague compiled all of the blogs about the OS into an epub document which can be downloaded from http://podcasting.usg.edu/4DCGI/Podcasting/GCSU/Episodes/882/95278436.epub

The table of contents is noted below.

Microsoft Windows 8 vs Apple Mountain Lion Operating Systems

CNET has a good article that gives a preview comparison of upcoming Microsoft Window 8 OS vs Apple Mountain Lion.  Those of us who use Windows 7 and are also Mac users can see where Windows is becoming more like a Mac OS.  It will be interesting to see the final versions of the two operating systems.

Lion OS X on the Mac

When reviewing MacWorld this morning, I read an article about a new Mac OS that is expected to be released sometime this summer - Mountain Lion.  That prompted me to think about the fact that my Mac OS was just upgraded to Lion a few weeks ago (so that I can use iBooks Author), but I had not explored the features.

OMG - I had overlooked some of the wonderful features of Lion!  Jason Snell wrote a great article for MacWorld summarizing the features in Lion a few months ago.  I realized that I was not taking full advantage of gesturing on the mouse pad.  Below is a YouTube video on Lion.  YouTube has a few other great videos that show Lion OS X features, such as http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mes132HsjVE