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Why Windows 7 "Slate" Tablets Won't Happen
snydeq writes "InfoWorld's Galen Gruman questions the viability of Windows 7 on tablets in the wake of the news that HP will use Palm's WebOS as the foundation for iPad rivals, rather than follow through with the previously hyped Windows 7-based Slate. 'The iPad proved a tablet shouldn't be a portable computer that happened to have its screen always exposed. Even though technical components are shared between the Mac OS and the iPhone OS, the irrelevant Mac OS functions aren't gumming up the iPhone OS, and Apple's development environment doesn't let you pull through desktop approaches into your mobile applications. You're forced to go touch-native,' Gruman writes, adding that, when it comes to touch capabilities, Windows 7 leaves much to be desired. 'Sure, a few Windows 7 slate-style tablets will ship — Asus and MSI are said to have models shipping later this year. But those products will go nowhere, because Windows 7 is simply not the right operating system for a slate.'"
For the same reason Jobs wont allow flash on anything apple runs with a batteries?? It will suck the batteries dry too fast.
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Putting aside the usual /. tendency, why would you even bother reading TFA? How is this analysis useful AFTER the fact that the ipad has already demonstrated that Windows 7 won't work (for a few years at least).
apparently your a moron and can't understand history in any way shape or form.
Windows 7 tablet is no different than windows XP tablet that has for the last 10 years failed to make any kind of headway.
All you describe are random small (and not so small) flaws, in the technical approach of Iphone OS. ou can't understand that a tablet isn't a netbook, and it isn't a full blown computer. having a desktop OS on a tablet is like installing netBSD onto a toaster. Just because you can doesn't mean it will work well.
i thought once I was found, but it was only a dream.