Android is FREE and the competition cannot beat the iPad in price or performance.
How does MSFT expect to make a profit, selling a Win8 tablet OS - with high performance requirements, when the competition which uses a FREE operating system, cannot beat Apple?
Windows?
Tablet?
Bwahahahahahaha?
I can’t want for the “Blue Tablet of Death”
If Microsoft built cars, they’d be Yugos.
May they rest in h*ll.
Windows is making people dumber.
For example: One virtual folder representing many folders (old school POSIX). Folks “stuff” is all over the damn PC and then they can’t find half of it when they migrate to a new machine.
“Smart” networking. “I can’t connect.” “Did you check the encryption type? WEP, WPA, TKIP, etc..” “Whip huh?”
Next thing they’ll do is get rid of directories and just have everything stored under c:\
Pardon me but this is akin to saying that the Phoenicians or the Irish deserve credit for the American Economy because they landed some sailors on the East Coast a while back. Microsoft lives for it's corporate installed base and for its XBox360 franchises and solid innovation comes from elsewhere.
Between 2002 and 2010 there was plenty of time and talent up there in the Northwest to bring a superior product to the fore, but Microsoft was the proverbial Elephant tripping all over its little Vista problem. To expect this ponderous pachyderm to suddenly become dextrous is a mirage in the distance. Maybe some day MS will wake up but this long-time shareholder has moved on to Apple and my options are doing very well indeed!
Gee, will it have another redundant and stupid menu feature, ala “the ribbon” of Windows 7 ?
Will they rearrange all the familar commands into something so incomprehensible that they have to issue a program so people can find them, ala Office 2007 ?
Just bought a new Dell netbook, and am zotting Windows 7 in favor of XP. It’ll cost me my retail copy of XP Pro, but it’ll be worth it.
Hahaha, that's a good one. A $17,000 coffee table is a tablet?
Scrambling to catch up? Given MS’ stellar track record with bugs on versions they take their time with, I would wait for Win 9.
By then Apple will probably be shipping iOS 8 running on an iPad 6.