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.
The conversation has nothing to do with who invented anything. Neither Microsoft nor Apple invented multitouch; it was demonstrated years before either of them did anything about it. MS demonstrated it before Apple, and Apple turned it into a wildly successful product line. MS has yet to do so.
> you brainless Applebot zombies
That sorry shot went way wide. I'm not an Apple fan; I do use some of their products, along with a wide variety of others from Microsoft, HP, Dell, etc.
>>>"...super advanced... technology that totally trumps anything..."
>> You write with adjectives and adverbs like a 13-yr old twit
Actually, I take that back. You write with adjectives and adverbs like a tripped-out 55-yr-old to whom everything is "insanely great" and "magical". You know who I mean... Steve Jobs...
> Window 7 WAS designed for netbooks...
Yes, that is the official line from MS, and apparently you are compelled to parrot it. But please, Joe, think for a minute, and remember 2008:
Vista was a huge resource hog, partly because of normal bloat, and partly because it was intended to create hardware demand for the suffering PC hardware vendors. Unfortunately, it arrived too late, too big, too costly, and the market was all about smaller, cheaper devices.
When Microsoft realized it had a complete turkey on its hands, it put Vista on a crash diet, re-badged it as "Win7", and claimed it was designed for netbooks -- because they had to say that. Joe, you're not stupid. You know that history as well as I do. You know that "Win7" was actually the name of MS's next OS project, not the Son-of-Vista NT6.1 that stole the Win7 name to distance itself from its parent. You know that Microsoft was in a blind panic to bury Vista. So don't insult both of us with this party line about how Win7 was designed from scratch for netbooks. Win7 is Vista on a diet. It is Vista Done Right. But it is not some new thing for netbooks.
Win7 is a great OS. I like it -- I'm not knocking it. It's a desktop OS, slimmed down enough that it can be claimed to be suitable for use on netbooks.
The fact that it runs on a netbook doesn't mean it is a good OS for a handheld device. It's just a desktop OS on a diet. Handhelds require a different approach, for lack of a better word.
> Intel is bringing out dual core Atoms for netbooks this very month, and some netbooks are already sporting 4GB of RAM.
So what's left to differentiate these so-called netbooks from laptops, other than display size? Nothing! There is no challenge to making Windows run in 4GB. For God's sake, man, XP runs fine in 512MB.
Microsoft does not understand handheld devices. Apple does.
Microsoft understands desktops and laptops. They will dominate desktops and laptops for a good long time. Personally I think Steve Jobs is full of sh*t talking about his handheld devices replacing desktops and laptops.