Thread: Amazon accidentally leaks world's first small-screen Windows 8 tablet
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Old 07-02-2013, 09:49 AM   #38
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Originally Posted by hidari View Post
To paraphrase the Economist when Al Gore ran for President of the USA... He had a slamdunk and he bricked it. Windows had a Slam dunk for the last 5 years and bricked it. Welcome to the world of Android and IOS... maybe Windows will change it....but I imagine that is a big Maybe... most people don't want a fully functional tablet...only email/text/browsing/lightgaming/chat/etc...

Yes, Microsoft made some big mistakes. Their advantage though is a single interface on all devices. I think that's a good vision, they just didn't execute it very well or quickly enough. They still may not recover, but things are starting to come together.
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