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   From: ahlstromc@xzoozy.com   
      
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   > In article ,   
   >  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.   
   >   
   > The reason that approach worked with netbooks is because netbooks really   
   > were just small, cheap laptops. Once they got a little more powerful   
   > (which was just a natural consequence of technological development), the   
   > regular version of Windows, as an OS suitable for use on laptops, was   
   > suitable for use on netbooks, and crushed alternatives with which users   
   > were less familiar and which had inferior application compatibility.   
   >   
   > Tablets are a different story, because traditional desktop UI provides   
   > an inferior user experience on tablet devices, when compared with UI   
   > actually designed for touch interaction. As a consequence, standard   
   > versions of Windows are _not_ especially suitable for tablets, making it   
   > much harder for Microsoft to subsume the tablet market into the desktop   
   > PC operating system ecosystem that they largely control.   
      
   Like I said (well, hinted, actually)... Microsoft will cripple that market   
   niche, effectively killing it.  Maybe they'll kill it with the standard   
   Windows interface, or maybe they'll put a Win 7 Phone type interface on it   
   and kill the tablet market by making the machines too bulky/expensive to   
   sell.   
      
   Of course, a lot may happen by 2013 to take it completely out of their   
   miserly little hands.   
      
   Microsoft:  "We're the leaders!  Wait for us!"   
      
   --   
   It's hard to argue that God hated Oklahoma.  If He didn't, why is it so   
   close to Texas?   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
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