I would love to see a Windows 8 review by someone who understands both tablets and PCs... but this isn't it. The author has so bought into the Microsoft view of

I would love to see a Windows 8 review by someone who understands both tablets and PCs... but this isn't it. The author has so bought into the Microsoft view of the world that I genuinely wonder what they've been doing for the past five years. We are now entering the post-post-PC era, and its focus is the PC. A new, smarter, more versatile PC. A PC that lets users browse the web casually in bed and work with massive databases in SQL Server. A PC that can run a $0.99 news reader as well as it can run proprietary $99,000 CRM software. A PC that is as ideal for playing Angry Birds as it is for running a modeling environment that allows its user to build schematics for a skyscraper. This is the future of computing. Er, no. No it isn't. That was the model that MS were pushing for a decade or so with 'Tablet PCs'/UMPCs and it has failed utterly. Most people DO NOT WANT a single device that can do all that, because the necessary design trade-offs produce a device that isn't very good at anything. Apple's realization of this fact (and their execution) is why they're the biggest company in the world, and why Windows Phone and Windows 8 are playing catchup. The machine I tested Windows 8 on is a pre-release dockable Samsung tablet with a 1.6GHz Intel Core i5 processor and 4GB of RAM. Yes, it’s a tablet with a fan. It’s also a tablet that can run your existing desktop-grade enterprise software, consumer software and lightweight Metro-style apps. Get over it. A Core i5 in a tablet? What's its battery life? I bet it sucks. People aren't going to 'get over it', they're just going to buy iPads. It's nice to see MS executing again. Windows Phone looks great. Windows 8 looks promising, if they can negotiate the backwards-compatibility waters of a new architecture. But I hope MS can see what they've been doing wrong for the past decade better than this guy, or their further decline is assured.