Microsoft To Sell Its Own Windows RT Tablet

Posted by timothy on Saturday June 16, 2012 @02:30AM from the end-to-end-integration dept.

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."

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Re:Well, what do you expect? by Jeremiah+Cornelius · 2012-06-16 03:17 · Score: 1, Troll

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.

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