Microsoft To Sell Its Own Windows RT Tablet 288
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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The light dawns (Score:5, Insightful)
Re:Huh? (Score:1, Insightful)
to be fair, Micro$oft have had some pretty shitty hardware ventures over the years.
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Re:Huh? (Score:2, Insightful)
(Sigh. Let the "troll" modding begin.)
Re:Huh? (Score:5, Insightful)
At $80+ OEM cost only Microsoft can afford to... (Score:5, Insightful)
If previous reports of >$80 for OEM WinRT are correct, only Microsoft can reasonably afford to build low end Windows RT tablets, as the $80 becomes prohibitive software cost for low end tablets (where WinRT will compete). For Microsoft it is just inter-divisional funny money.
How do HW OEMs compete with a $200 Kindle Fire (or rumored Google Branded $200 tablet) when saddled with $80+ OS?
This isn't a troll just an observation (Score:5, Insightful)
Re:This summary is terrible (Score:5, Insightful)
The stock symbol usage seems to come from those who have started thinking the worth of a company whose product you use is not the product but the value of the company. Personally, I think a company that makes obscene boatloads of money is charging too much.
Re:This isn't a troll just an observation (Score:5, Insightful)
I don't have the feeling that the tablet market is exactly saturated. Sure there are many players, but it's a fast growing market, and there is definitely place for more players.
Whether MS has what it takes to compete in that market, that's a totally different matter.
And by the way, Apple launched their first-ever mobile phone offering in a mature, and far more saturated market than the tablet market is now. I can't say they didn't do well. So launching a new product in a saturated market is not a recipe for failure - you just have to offer something good that can compete with the rest.
That the Zune was a flop was not because the digital music player market was saturated, it was more because it was a lesser offering than the iPod.
Re:Huh? (Score:4, Insightful)
False premise. People who do something wrong are generally forgiven after they've "paid their debt to society". There are some people who choose never to forgive anyone for anything, but those people are sanctimonious assholes who want the world to think that they're perfect little saints.
If you had, say, stolen a car, gone to jail, and done your time, do you really think it would be fair for others to treat you as a social pariah and refer to you as a car thief in every conversation even twenty years later?
Re:Huh? (Score:4, Insightful)
Er ..... a little bit selective? (Score:5, Insightful)
Search
Adwords
Adsense
Gmail
Youtube
Google Docs
Maps
Android
Chrome
Google Earth
Analytics
Blogger
Anyone who can beat Microsoft comprehensively at browsers, phone OSs, and search shouldn't be dismissed.
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Re:Huh? (Score:3, Insightful)
Re:This summary is terrible (Score:4, Insightful)
Personally, I think a company that makes obscene boatloads of money is charging too much.
No. Any company making boatloads of money is charging exactly the right amount.
Too little and you go broke. Too much and nobody is buying, and you go broke.