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   From: hardon.quark@gmail.com   
      
   On Sat, 08 Jan 2011 07:12:14 -0500, Chris Ahlstrom wrote:   
      
   > Lawrence D'Oliveiro wrote this copyrighted missive and expects   
   > royalties:   
   >   
   >> I mean, seriously?   
   >   
   > Microsoft will simply co-opt the ARM tablet market through   
   > sweet-seeming OEM deals and some plain old browbeating, push the   
   > hardware to become more and more powerful, and larger and larger,   
   > until it moves out of the tablet arena, thus all but killing the   
   > market.  Just like it did with the small netbooks.   
      
   I'm sure that is what Microsoft is hoping. However, the tablet market   
   is a lot different than the netbook one. Netbooks took most people by   
   surprise. There was no niche. Apple created a niche for tablets that   
   previously, ie Microsoft, nobody had managed to get a foothold.   
      
   Android based tablets are arriving by the score. Google's ChromeOS is   
   coming. By the time Microsoft get any Windows 8 tablets to market   
   (2013?) will be too little too late just like WP7. It is already a 2   
   horse race: Apple & Android (ChromeOS?). They will both do extremely   
   well. Microsoft? Who is Microsft. :-)   
      
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