SPECIFICATION	ANDROID	WINDOWS 8
Applications	600,000+ applications	100,000+ applications
Control centre	Have control centre but varies as per the phone manufacturer	Does not have provision for control centre and users need to go to the setting menu for this
Storage	Store application data in the phone’s internal storage	Store the application data in isolated storage
Browser	Google crome	Internet explorer 10
Isolation	Files stored in internal storage area are private to each application. Other applications or the user cannot access that data	Isolated storage files belonging to an application from other applications. The application cannot access the data storage area of other applications and affect then adversely
Social media intergration	Twitter and Facebook	Facebook,Twitter, Linked In and Windows Live
Sandbox	Android prevent unauthorized data access by restricting input and output(i/o)  operating of internal storage to the same application. However, you have an option to make this data public by writing data to external storage	Windows restrict all input and output operations to isolated storage and prevent the (i/o) operations from accessing operating system files. This prevent an unauthorized access and data corruption
Home screen	Icons and widgets	Tiles, and smaller icon
Layout base	View group	panel
Unified browser bar	the defaultis web browser features a central browser bar for all tabs	Has a unified browser bar
Notifications centre	Boasts of detailed notifications including toggles, music and etc	Does not have it but users can access controls from the home screen via live tiles
notifications	Pull down with expandable actionable notifications	Toast and banner
Unit of display	activity	page
productivity	Google ducts	Office mobile. Corporate business productivity as it primary roles. More advanced in business because it oriented apps in content creation and enterprise which oriented organization
multitasking	Yes.user can switch between applications in android via the recent list	Pseudo. Allows user to move between active applications via the multitasking preview feature
Automatic application update	While application do not update automatically, users can select the option while downloading them	Yes the applications update automatically  but  does not have an update all option for applications