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Microsoft To Sell Its Own Windows RT Tablet
Glasswire writes "ComputerWorld reports that Microsoft will announce a Microsoft-branded tablet on Monday running the Win RT (ARM-based) subset version of Win 8. MSFT choose not to offer a x86 Win 8 version, which could have given them a performance advantage over ARM-based Apple iPads. A PCMag opinion piece titled 'A Microsoft Tablet Would Be Dumb' says, 'The only real reason to introduce a Microsoft-branded tablet is because Microsoft couldn't get anyone else to make a Windows RT tablet.' No reaction yet from Microsoft's system OEM customers that it will now be competing with."
Why by garbage from Toshiba or Panasonic? If you really want something to come apart at the seams, go MS all the way.
Based on the overwhelming success of the KIN and "Play Anywhere", Microsoft soon to sell it's OWN TURD! Thought to be the perfect vehicle for Windows 8, itself deemed the best Apple marketing campaign since Vista.
"Flyin' in just a sweet place,
Never been known to fail..."
As the GP pointed out, if Google can buy Motorola and own the Xoom and the RAZR, what's wrong w/ Microsoft having its own tablet or phone?
Um, because they have a 100% failure record at anything more complicated than a mouse or keyboard?
Only difference will be Windows RT vs Android vs iOS, but that's a real Microsoft vs Google vs Apple differentiator.
It would a differentiator if it ran DOS 3.3; but that would be equally ignorant.
Particularly given that since they want to price it higher than either Apple or Google/Mot, chances are that no vendor would want to bat for them w/ such a market disadvantage. So Microsoft is probably pitching this themselves, hoping that their brand name will help sell it.
Bets on whether this will tank even more quickly than the KIN?