Windows 8 Will Be in Place Third at Market Tablets

Metro touch screen interface of Windows 8 seems to be very suitable when applied to the tablet. But according to analyst firm Gartner, Microsoft still will be hard to beat Apple iPad and the onslaught of Android-based tablets. Carolina Milanesi, research vice president at Gartner, said,''We expect Apple still mmimpin market with more than 50 percent until 2014.''

Gartner predicts that worldwide sales of tablets until the end of this year will reach 63.6 million, an increase of very-very-dramatic compared to 2010, which rose 261.4 percent. Apple will take the lead until the end of the year by 73.4 percent while total tablet Android will take a 17.3 per cent.

In the chart predictions for 2015, Gartner believes that Apple will sell 148 million tablets while Android sells 116 million tablets. Windows 8 will berata in third place with sales of 34 million tablets in 2015.