'Microsoft working on foldable tablet with Windows Lite'

Microsoft is reportedly working on another operating system that should compete with  Chrome OS, the lightweight operating system developed by Google and intended for cheap laptops. The company previously attempted to bring such an OS to the market as “Windows 10 S”, which failed and was phased out earlier this year. This time the company is allegedly working on a foldable tablet that should run a lightweight OS called “Windows Lite”.

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References to Windows Lite were found by the Microsoft watchers from the website Petri in the latest version of Windows 10. According to the website the operating system will be a version of Windows targeted at Chromebooks, which are laptops that run Chrome OS.

Besides Windows 10 S, Microsoft made an even earlier attempt on creating a lightweight operating for less powerful laptops and tablets. This was a specific version of Windows 8, called Windows RT. Just like Windows 10 S, also Windows RT never took off.

Petri expects that Windows Lite will not be a separate Windows version that users can purchase, but a separate version only intended for lightweight laptops. Other than Windows 10 S, Windows Lite would get its own user interface.

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Windows Central independently reports that Microsoft is reportedly working on a foldable tablet that should run Windows. This device would be code named Centaurus and it would be a larger version of foldable tablet that Microsoft works on and that has been code named Andromeda.

Microsoft is allergy working on the Centaurus tablet for more than a year and it's expected the device would be unveiled by the end of next year. It would be the first of a new type of Windows tablets that works with two displays. According to Windows Central, the foldable tablet would run Windows Core OS, a name that been mentioned several times before, however it's very likely that Core OS and Windows Lite are two different names for the same OS.

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