The first Windows 8 shelves in November.

The first Windows 8 shelves in November.

The first bars of an Intel processor and equipped with Windows 8 should be launched on the market in the month of November. This is in any case what some sources close to the manufacturers of shelves are. More than a dozen models would be provided in a first time, half of the hybrid models, i.e. Convertible laptop computers touch tablets. All models of this first wave of Windows 8 tablets would work with a chip Atom Clover Trail, a dual-core model engraved in 32 nm that Intel will launch on this occasion. Of other Windows 8 tablet equipped with a processor Ivy Bridge should eventually see the day, but their characteristics are not yet known. Finally, Intel is already working on Bay Trail; the successor of Clover Trail engraved 22 nm. Course, once available, this future processor will naturally find its place in the market of Windows 8 tablets.

Sales of tablets do not know the crisis.

Sales of tablets do not know the crisis.

Flagship of the past year and the current year, the tablet that seduced 440.000 French buyers in 2010, 1.5 million in 2011 and already 232.000 for the first two months of the current year is poised for another year of strong growth in 2012, where GfK provides the sale of 3 million additional units. Initially positioned at the crossroads between the video player, the Smartphone and the PC, the Tablet is looking toward this last segment to replace a netbook aging in French homes, summarizes the Institute.

-L' offer of content becomes more readable:

Be it at the level of the size of the screen or the possibility of connection to the telephone network, the choices made by consumers show close to the PC and to a residential framework use, says GfK. Last year, 78% of the sold shelves had a screen 9 inches (22.5 centimeters) or more than diagonal, but only 19% were compatible 3 G. If the tablet was originally presented as a mobile device, the study REC + shows instead that it is essentially used at home, with 81% of the time at home, compared to 19% on the outside. In terms of use, all content found their place on these new devices, said GfK. There is a distribution balanced between all types of use: 19% of time is thus reserved for the video game, 16% to the viewing of video and 15% listen to music, detailed study. More generally, GfK said that proposals from manufacturers remain diversified to address all levels of technical characteristics and price. However, it is on the size of the content, better integrated and optimized, that offers innovative, points out, believing that through applications stores, offering content becomes more readable and allows the consumer to take full advantage of the various options proposed through the tablet.

In 2012, two times more tactile tablets and 2011

Tactile tablets

The market for tablets expected almost double between 2011 and 2012 and $ 60 million to 119 million units sold worldwide, according to Gartner forecasts. According to the research firm, 118,8 million tablets will be passed this year in the world and Apple will remain "the locomotive of the market" by providing him only 72.9 million global shipments through the iPad, or 61% of the market. Global sales of tablets running Android operating system should also double between 2011 and 2012, from $ 17.2 million to 37.8 million. The shelves using the Google operating system is thus alleged 31.9% market share. Late last year, sales of tablets at a lower cost, as the Fire of Amazon Kindle, had registered significant sales figures in the United States. According to Gartner, one of the brakes to the adoption of Android tablets is the lack of applications specially dedicated to the large screens.

-Rise of windows 8:

Far behind, Microsoft will only capture 4% of market share, with 4.8 million tablets running Windows this year past. Microsoft must deploy this year version 8 of its operating system. The American company aims with this system to unify the user experience, use a desktop computer or a digital tablet. However, Gartner provides an increase in global sales of bars on Windows, which should represent 12% of the market in 2016. For the next years, the research firm also provides growth of tablets, related to professional applications. "Sales of tablets for businesses represent 35% of all by 2015", indicates the firm.