From the article: Why Windows 7 Slate Will Fail
Microsoft is scheduled to start releasing their latest tablet computing devices between now and the end of 2010. With the success of the Apple iPad and a whole range of other tablet devices coming out, can Microsoft succeed with their Windows 7 Slate designs? Share your opinion of how you think the devices will fare with the market and why. Share Your Opinion
Reality
- Hmmmm, well Borsia - Windows 7 is really quite stable and much faster over XP. And Sarah, Microsoft does own the OS system world when you consider 95% or so of the world uses it.
- —Guest Repoman
OSs
- Sarah; What is most annoying to me is that MS had the right OS in XP Pro. They could have just fixed the, rather few, bugs in it and I'd be a happy camper. Instead their greed got in front of their logic and they unleashed Vista on the world. Now they are following up with W7 which is really nothing more than a Vista service pack. It is still a bloated power & memory hungry gluten that stumbles often and falls frequently. It is mostly for this reason that I will be moving to another OS when my XP computers finally die. I can pretty much guarantee it won't be an MS OS.
- —Borsia
for me it is moot
- Why would I want to sit there tapping on something when I can use a mouse, or other pointer, and a keyboard. It isn't likely that I will ever choose an Ipad or other tablet over a netbook. The netbooks have more storage more computing power and close to the same battery life. The Ipad in particular as well as tablets I've played with are awkward to hold while doing anything. Apart from maybe a pda, although I prefer my cell phone, I just don't see any uses.
- —Borsia
Microsoft,please make it happen!
- Microsoft already has several "stripped down" OS's it could optimize for a worthy iPad competitor...but will they (see Kin).
- —Guest Chris
With Windows 7 on it? I doubt it!
- Microsoft wants to own the operating system for the world, but what they don't seem to understand is that Windows isn't it. Maybe if they made a stripped down version of the OS, and paid a bunch of non-MS developers to write apps for it, it would. But Windows 7 relies too much on a mouse (a touch screen with a mouse just seems wrong) and the OS is to bulky anyway.
- —Guest Sarah
