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   From: ldo@geek-central.gen.new_zealand   
      
   In message , Chris Ahlstrom wrote:   
      
   > 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.   
      
   But they haven’t been able to do that so far. Remember ARM has been around   
   for 20-something years, and Microsoft’s ongoing Windows Mobile failures   
   aren’t much younger than that. They simply cannot control the ARM market; if   
   they could, they would have done so already.   
      
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