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I cannot understand why Microsoft keeps on trying to play catch-up with Google and Apple. They have a tough fight ahead if that is to remain their approach (eve
by wynand 16y ago
I cannot understand why Microsoft keeps on trying to play catch-up with Google and Apple. They have a tough fight ahead if that is to remain their approach (even with all of their resources).
There are a few brights spots for them - Kinect looks amazing - but their obsession with doing everything that Apple and Google are doing may hurt them in the long run.
(I am not concerned whether MS succeeds or not - I haven't used an MS product in years - but I am astounded that a company filled with so many clever and creative folk is loath to innovate on its own terms.)
- henrikschroder 16y agoThe weird thing is that they've had tablet technology for a long time, but they've constantly been talking about it, doing small demos, showing how you could work with a tablet, bringing the windows experience to tablets, etc, but they've never actually released a polished consumer product. It's all talk, talk, talk, and then when someone else launches they struggle to catch-up. So is all of their talk empty?
- saurik 16y agoI don't know... I've been using Windows tablets since the early 1990's, when I had a Compaq Concerto running "Windows 3.1 for Pen Computing". I've also had a Dauphin DTR-1, a Compaq TC1000, and a Thinkpad X61. Do you mean that you expect Microsoft to make their own tablet hardware and release it? While they do make some of their own products, that's not really how Microsoft "rolls": they develop software for OEM integration.