"Ubuntu Is Better Than Windows 8 On Tablets"

It's not long since Canonical showcased Ubuntu for tablets and 'serious' people have already started liking it over Microsoft's Windows 8, touts Mark Shuttleworth, Canonical's founder. In an interview with ZDNet, Shuttleworth has talked about Ubuntu for tablets in detail.

Shuttleworth said that the company had mapped out the vision for phone, tablet, PC, TV around four years ago. Shuttleworth explained, “The result you see is really elegant. This [the tablet version] is the missing link, the bridge, between what we showed you six weeks ago and the PC stuff. In a sense we've been hiding in plain sight. You can go back to 2009 and look at things that landed in the distro and see now why those pieces came together.” Shuttleworth revealed that the company already has a silicon partner for Ubuntu for tablets and “they are a very significant force in the mobile ecosystem and they are optimising prototypes.” Canonical's founder said that Ubuntu Phone will arrive in January next year while Ubuntu tablets will hit the shelves in April 2014. He said, “This is the developer version right now, you can't really use it as your every day driver, but in a couple of weeks you'll be able to.”

Commenting on the response he has got on Ubuntu tablet at Mobile World Congress 2013, Shuttleworth said, “We've got a lot of work to do but we've got some great partners kicking in and the team is really motivated. We have a chance to profoundly change the historical balance of Linux as a follower of PCs. This is better than Windows 8 as an experience, that's not a crazy thing to say, serious people in industry are saying 'that's better than Windows 8' [on tablets].”

Source : efytimes