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Originally Posted by stonetools
I think the vision is there, but its going to come down to excution. Now Microsoft is great at execution, and I wish them the best of luck. Still, they have a big mountain to climb.
1. They are starting so far back in the field that they need a telescope to see Apple.
2. They were missing a lot at at their presentation. Gruber:
With 90 days or so till launch, you would think that they would have a kickass MS Office demo, at least.
Now they should be able to have the core apps and MS office ready to go at launch, but this should be a matter of seeing, not believing.I'm hoping they won't follow the usual Microsoft way of not getting things right with software till version3.0. Like it or not, the expectation is now that everything has to be ready to go from Day One. The IPad launch has set that standard for our expectations.
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I agree about the missing details. The battery life could absolutely make or break this thing. A device that did everything that every person in the entire world wanted it to do, only better than they had ever dreamed, would fall flat with a four hour battery. The iPad has made us all expect (and deservedly so) ten hour battery life from our tablets. Lots of devices have been non-starters due to short battery life. And a full Windows device with appropriate resources will be a battery hog.