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To: GingisK
Most Microsoft software serves only Microsoft or the “Oh, wouldn't it be cool if” croud

Nobody buys Windows 7 laptops because “it's cool”. We buy Windows 7 computers because Win 7 is a great OS, and we can get a very full featured Win 7 latop for peanuts, and Win 7 runs vastly more applications than any other OS on the planet, and runs all the AAA games (MW2, Bioshock 2, Mass Effect 2 etc), and it will run all your previous programs from your last laptop too.

10 posted on 06/02/2010 5:43:13 PM PDT by SmokingJoe
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To: SmokingJoe
> Nobody buys Windows 7 laptops because “it's cool”. We buy Windows 7 computers because Win 7 is a great OS, and we can get a very full featured Win 7 latop for peanuts, and Win 7 runs vastly more applications than any other OS on the planet, and runs all the AAA games (MW2, Bioshock 2, Mass Effect 2 etc), and it will run all your previous programs from your last laptop too.

What you say is basically true, but let me try to condense it a little:

Windows is the default workhorse for people who use full-size keyboards and mice, who sit at desks all day and/or all night. It's a majority market at present.
The small / portable devices are not a useful platform for Win7 -- but who cares? Windows shouldn't be trying to squeeze itself onto such platforms. It's silly. It's a perfectly fine desktop OS, and a satisfactory laptop OS. It is not all things to all devices, however, and Microsoft looks stupid if they pretend that it should be everywhere. (And yes I know about WinCE and so forth...)

If Microsoft squeezes Windows into a tablet and makes it useful, it will no longer be Windows as we know it, even if it retains the name.

11 posted on 06/02/2010 6:29:56 PM PDT by dayglored (Listen, strange women lying in ponds distributing swords is no basis for a system of government!)
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To: SmokingJoe
A Ford Pinto with a big engine is still a Ford Pinto...

Windoze is sorta the same thing.. pig/lipstick!

You can put Windoze on a tablet, but it still won't be as good as Apple's iPad. The App store and ease of use make it a winner. Apple stock is trading above $260 these days! Apple company is worth more than your sucky Microcrap.

Have a nice day, Joe. Smoke some more of that stuff. It makes your posts funnier! Be sure and make a snarky reply. I wouldn't want to miss your wit...


13 posted on 06/02/2010 6:42:37 PM PDT by WVKayaker ( Ridicule is the best test of truth. - Philip Dormer Shanhope, Lord Chesterfield)
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