MS has done tablets before. How is this going to be any different? Maybe timing? MS is hedging their bets as always. Not wanting to fully abandon their Windows

MS has done tablets before. How is this going to be any different? Maybe timing? MS is hedging their bets as always. Not wanting to fully abandon their Windows OS. (Except maybe in the case of XBox and Zune.) I wish they did move forward with Courier. Windows 8 will be a jack of all trades and master of none. Update: Just saw a video of Windows 8 and it looks great but I still have worries about trying to combine the old with the new. Interface looks great until you run one of those old windows apps (ughhh). And when will be ever rid of those drive letters? ;-) Update 2: There are two skills that will not go out of fashion: windows/x86 programming and HTML/JS.