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Maybe people's expectations of Microsoft are just so low that no one actually thought they'd try to compete.

• ams6110 14y ago
  This is the first time they've really done anything squarely in the personal computing hardware space. They've had peripheral devices, and the Xbox, but this is quite a bold new step for them. The thing is, they've not done it before. I'd expect them to make at least a few mistakes.
  • excuse-me 14y ago
    It's not clear if they are actually intending to make this - or if like Google's Nexus phone it's really only meant as a development standard. Back in the 386/486 days Intel used to make PCs which you bought to test your code on - but it didn't mean intel were getting into the Walmart space.