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Originally Posted by toddos
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This is a developer preview release. It's not the beta. Those apps aren't included because they don't matter. The goal for this release is not to get hundreds of millions of people running Windows 8. It's to get developers writing apps in preparation for the Beta launch that comes later. It's not intended for general use, and if you dismiss the OS because of missing functionality in a developer preview you're doing it extremely wrong.
This needs to come out now so that there will be awesome ereaders (and other apps, of course) when beta hits. It's like Apple's iOS developer previews that are not intended for general use, despite them being jailbroken and leaked. At least Microsoft isn't charging you for the privilege of getting access to the platform as a developer.
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You are right. Microsoft's approach is different from Apple's , though, who kept the iPad under wraps until it was almost ready for release. What I was cautioning against was this:
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One platform to rule them all. The technology exists to enable users to carry a single device that is as portable and usable as a tablet, but also as powerful and capable as a PC. It has a battery that can last all day, but it can also run Photoshop, Excel and Outlook. It can weigh next to nothing and slip into a slim case, but it can also power two monitors and run proprietary enterprise software.
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under a headline , "Windows Ushers in the Post-PC Future"!
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Seems a little early for that. Daring Fireball (admittedly an Apple fanboy) notes:
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It’s one thing to look at today’s Windows-8-on-a-tablet and say that it has a lot of potential. It’s another thing altogether to look at it and declare victory.
Show me something real, I say. Look at Amazon. Everyone knows they’re building a tablet. What have they said, though? Nothing. What have they shown? Nothing. When will they say something? When it’s done. What will they show? Something real.
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