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Originally Posted by teh603
Only trouble with doing two things at once, you can't always do them equally well, or as well as you could do one thing. Apple tried and failed with MacOS and A/UX, but seems to have found a rare balance with OS X and iOS.
Time will tell, though. I'm still unsold on the tablet market thanks to Dell's repeated failures with the Inspiron Duo. Maybe when LO hits the Android market...
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The thing is, Microsoft isn't trying to do two things well. They are extending an existing (very successful) product so that it will function with new technologies.
I think the real questions comes down to this: have they done those extensions well? Will there be enough uptake of those extensions by ISVs for Windows RT to be successful?
The irony of the whole situation is Microsoft still wins even if Metro fails. Yes, they would have lost the tablet wars, but that really only amounts to losing a segment of the consumer market. On the other hand, they would have proven that tablets are not a viable option for content creation or business use. So their desktop market would continue to thrive for years to come.
(For what it's worth, Mac OS X and iOS use the same core OS but moderately different APIs so that comparison doesn't really work out. Mac OS and A/UX used a completely different OS and different API, so that comparison doesn't work out either. The closest comparison are Microsoft's prior offerings for tablet PCs.)