The recently demonstrated Windows 8, the next version of Microsoft’s Windows operating system, has an interface that looks a lot like the software giant’s mobile-phone operating system, Windows Phone 7.

It appears as if Microsoft is gambling on the future of touch devices with Windows 8 OS, which will provide a combination of goodies of tomorrow’s touch tablets and advantages of mice and keyboards of yesterday’s personal computers.

Microsoft hasn’t made any similar attempt in the past two decades as mobile phones and tablets are unusual for it.

Some experts are of the opinion that Microsoft’s attempt with Windows 8 could be risky for Microsoft as it doesn’t fall in their comfort zone. The company is trying to adapt to the environment of technology instead of innovating it. Microsoft’s new Windows OS widely resembles Apple’s iOS for the iPhone and ipad.

Experts are also questioning Windows 8’s incentives for desktops and laptops as jumping quickly from window to window copying content from one source to paste it into another will not be that much easy with touch-based computing devices.

The new user interface of the Windows 8 will demand applications to be re-written, just like DOS applications had to be re-written for Windows when the company had moved users from DOS to Windows in the early 1990s.