PC Mag: An article like this requires a lot of caveats and many large grains of salt. But we were interested to see what would happen if we compared the performance of a very early version of Microsoft's upcoming desktop OS with Apple's released one, and we thought you would be, too. Windows 8 is far from finished, but its creators have made bold claims about performance.
The cloud storage platform will drop support for older versions of Windows in early 2022.
Microsoft responded with Windows 8 and its Surface RT tablet.
In the earliest days of the Surface, it was hard to shake the notion that the line was something of a reference design for Windows 8.