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This is largely an entrepreneurial site, so tell me: if you tried a concept and it failed, then you repackaged and tried again with another failure (redo this
by danssig 15y ago
This is largely an entrepreneurial site, so tell me: if you tried a concept and it failed, then you repackaged and tried again with another failure (redo this step multiple times as necessary), then saw someone else alter your concept and have enormous success would you:
a) Learn from them and make a product that competes in that space or
b) Try your same multiple-times-failed strategy again?
If you're MS it seems option b is the right answer. PC in tablet form, take... what, 5?
- MatthewPhillips 15y agoIn what why is this the same strategy? Windows 8 has a completely new API. Win32, which has been around since the early 90s is gone. The new API doesn't even have the concept of overlapping windows. WinRT talks directly to the kernel. In that respect, Windows 8 is as much of a "new thing" as the iPad or Android or any other tablet OS. The only thing they've chosen to do differently is in marketing. The other tablet OSes are marketed as completely new things and Microsoft is marketing it as an iteration on an old thing.
- danssig 15y agoIs it going to be the same thing they sell on the desktop? That's the goal, right? So it's PC in tablet form. Just like every time they've tried it before.
- MatthewPhillips 15y agoIt's a tablet in desktop form. Everything but the kernel was rewritten with the tablet as the default use case.