None of which were successful in any comparison to the iPhone, iPod Touch, and iPad. It is not uncommon for lots of dog products precede a good one, so what?
> the super advanced Microsoft Surface Computer, which has touch screen technology that totally trumps anything that the iPhone has,...
Tell me, are you a Microsoft Marketing hack, or just a bedazzled fanboy? You write with adjectives and adverbs like a 13-yr old twit, yet I don't think you are one, since you claim actual industry experience. Which is it?
> ... started development work as long ago as 2001, and was first shown to the public in 2007.
And not counting the demos they gave away, how many were sold to paying customers, and are still in use?
> Microsoft designed Win 7 for both tablets AND netbooks. Windows 7 has been happily running very well on some netbooks without any problems. Win 7 will run fine on the rather great looking new tablets they just announced at Computex.
You're not addressing my point, Joe. I'm not saying Microsoft can't cram Win7 into small form-factor devices. Hell, they'll try to put Windows on postage stamps.
I'm saying, it's not appropriate. Windows is not good at that stuff. It's great as a desktop OS -- I use it for 10 hours every day and manage my System Admin department very comfortably from Win7-64 on a 2-core 4GB machine.
Microsoft may try to mimic the old Contadina trick, but they are not likely to come up with something that does what people want, IMO.
But I tire of arguing with you, so I'll just say this -- let's see what happens, and how it does in the marketplace. After all, that's what matters.
That is besides the point.
Microsoft tablets STILL have been on the market for years, long before the iPhone/Ipad.
Toyota selling more cars than British VW, doesn't mean Toyota invented cars.
“Tell me, are you a Microsoft Marketing hack, or just a bedazzled fanboy? “
Windows doesn't have fanboys. It already has over 90% of the market,. Most computers users on the planet use Windows as a tool to get their work done. They have no time to be rabidfanboys like you brainless Applebot zombies.
“You write with adjectives and adverbs like a 13-yr old twit”
Oh boy! I just love when it you Apple zombies start with the insults (it always comes to that whenever idiotic Apple zombies are losing any argument). You merely give me the freedom to hammer you right back, and nothing pleases me more than bashing you clowns down.
You write like a retarded 5 year old who has been further put through a frontal lobotomy, which went wrong and damaged his brains further.
But hey, who am I to call you out on that? After all, heaven knows you need all the help you can get. Poor guy.
That's like asking how many MRI machines are in use at hospitals.
The Surface Computer is not a mass market product like laptops, which are for sale in the hundreds of millions to consumers. The Surface is sold to businesses with specific needs. Visit one of the hotels listed a the Surface Computers site in Vegas sometime. Now if you want to know how many have been sold, why don't you ask Microsoft?
Meanwhile, what matters here in this debate, is that the Surface Computer technology blows anything the iPhone/iPad can do out of the water. Its vastly more advanced than anything Apple has been able to come up with.
“I'm not saying Microsoft can't cram Win7 into small form-factor devices. “
Cram nothing.
Window 7 WAS designed for netbooks, and works great on netbooks.
“Windows is not good at that stuff”
It is.
” I use it for 10 hours every day and manage my System Admin department very comfortably from Win7-64 on a 2-core 4GB machine. “
Again, Intel is bringing out dual core Atoms for netbooks this very month, and some netbooks are already sporting 4GB of RAM.
“so I'll just say this — let's see what happens, and how it does in the marketplace”
Works for me.