At D9 today, Microsoft demoed Windows 8 for the first time. This next version of Windows blends the current Windows UI with Immersive UI. Immersive experience is Metro UI designed specially for Tablets and touch screens. Windows 8’s UI is designed to scale from small to large screens with or without touch support, keyboard or mouse. The immersive experience is much similar to the Metro UI in Windows Phone 7 but enhanced to be suitable for tablets and touch panels.

Users can between the existing Windows app and immersive apps with a blended experience. There seem to be a blend of HTML 5 and JavaScript Apps with the native immersive apps. It seems that Microsoft is trying hard to create a well understood connection between the OEMs, hardware manufactures and Windows 8 team to bring the flawless immersive experience.  Watch the video:

This gives a very hard time to Android tablets with version defragmentation and not-so-unique experience. In few days Apple will unveil Mac OS X Lion about which Apple says “It is getting back to the iPad” pointing to merge the experience of iPad with a Mac for something very ‘magical’. Also iOS 5 will be unveiled for iPad and iPhone that should have a prolific feature list and better experience  for getting in competition with Windows 8 Immersive Experience. About 90% computer users in the world use Windows so Windows 8 immersive experience can be a big hit if it proves to be a better experience than the experience of Mac OS X Lion and iOS 5(specially).