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____/ bbgruff on Tuesday 05 Jul 2011 12:28 : \____
> On Tuesday 05 July 2011 07:18 Roy Schestowitz wrote:
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>> ____/ Goblin on Monday 04 Jul 2011 14:55 : \____
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>>> http://www.techradar.com/news/mobile-computing/tablets/tablet-operating-
> systems-compared-972510?artc_pg=2
>>>
>>> "but while Microsoft likes to say that Windows 7 was designed for touch,
>>> the simple fact is that it just doesn't function as well as iOS,
>>> Android, or any other operating system specifically designed with touch
>>> in mind."
>>
>> No version of Windows is suitable for tablets. Microsoft has too much to
>> worry about except tablets. At one point last year it pondered using WP7
>> on tablets (!!).
>>
>> Hilarity ensues...
>>
>> Expect Microsoft to just try /taxing/ tablets, using software patents.
>
> I must admit, I rather fail to see where Microsoft is going in all this.
>
> As I recall, they have categorically stated that they do *not* intend that
> WP7 should be used on tablets. Rather, it is W7 (W8?) that will be used
> (aside:- think what *that* will do to web statistics and the "who has what
> proportion of the desktop" argument!)
I read about the WP7-tablet thing about 4 months ago and Microsoft booster Preston Gralla
wrote about it.
> 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.
>
> Maybe we are going to see a big push by them into "transformers"?
They would have to give Windows for free and bribe some OEMs to distort the market;
They would struggle to pull it off, they have deteriorated for quite a few
years now, trying to kill the competition in vain (instead devaluing Windows{r}).
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