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____/ Sinister Midget on Tuesday 05 Jul 2011 13:46 : \____
> On 2011-07-05, bbgruff <bbgruff@xxxxxxxxxxx> claimed:
>
>> The *big* selling point for a Windows tablet will presumably be Microsoft's
>> usual sales pitch, "The environment that you know and love, capable of
>> running all your applications, like Microsoft Office". Unfortunately (for
>> them) I think that the pitch falls down on tablets. In other words, it
>> looks to me as though the whole reason to stick with Microsoft disappears in
>> a tablet-environment.
>
> "The environment that you know and love. And loathe. Capable of running
> all of your applications, one at a time, poorly, like Microsoft Office.
> But it can 'multitask,' too. You can run office, shut that down, then
> run Internet Explorer. That's two. Then shut IE down and scan for
> viruses. Then you can listen to any preloaded videos or music you may
> own (subject to being considered legal by Microsoft). We'll get
> streaming media to stop being choppy someday. Anyway, that's 4 tasks
> already."
>
> That's exactly what their pitch will sound like after they sell a few
> with Windummie 7 and people have their hands on them for real.
>
> Oh, and to get to such stellar performance?
>
> 2.8GHz Intel processor
> 4G DDR3 RAM
> 320G SATA hard drive (with 2G free)
>
> in a "tablet." Probably the size of, and and only slightly heavier
> than, a 15" laptop. Get a lap cooler if you plan on holding it.
>
> But it will come with really great features. Like the ability for you
> to pay for XBox Live right from your tablet(!), you'll be able to make
> poor-quality calls with M$-Skype, you can sync all of your Hotmail
> viruses at the push of a button, and you can pay for things you can't
> use from the M$ Online Slop SHop App Store (free, working apps are for
> Droidtards; so are low-cost ones).
Does Skype even run on WP7 yet? I think not. Skype used to say they'd
ignore the platform.
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