Windows slates
Microsoft will unveil more W7 slate devices at CES 2011. Yet, according to this report—if the BBC is ever to be believed on technology matters*—W7 sucks as a gesture-based OS, compared to iOS and Android.
So is M$ flogging the proverbial dead horse? Have they totally missed the point when they believe that there is a huge market for business people who want to enjoy a slate for reading newspapers and magazines and then work on Microsoft Word, Excel or PowerPoint while doing work
?
Do they need to radically rethink how they develop an OS for hand-held devices, like Apple has developed iOS distinct from OSX, or should they continue to try hammering that square peg into that round hole? Layered interfaces, anyone?
Or is the whole slate/tablet thing overhyped anyway? I've never used one properly, but when I, very briefly, looked at the iPad it left me somewhat apathetic, at least compared to a real computer that can do stuff
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Discuss or not. The choice is, quite literally, yours.
* Other than Richard Hammond's research into the destruction of caravans, which is not only scientifically sound but also righteous