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To clarify- Microsoft's position with Windows 8 is to leverage a guaranteed desktop user base to muscle into the tablet marketplace. This is a cocky attitude.
by randomfool 14y ago
To clarify- Microsoft's position with Windows 8 is to leverage a guaranteed desktop user base to muscle into the tablet marketplace. This is a cocky attitude.
A paranoid attitude would have been if they took their 75% profit margins on the OS and ensured that it could run on absolutely every device under the sun and invested in every far-fetched concept out there. Rather, Microsoft focuses on killing any internal competing products (such as Courier).
- simonh 14y agoIt seems more likely that Courier was killed because they realised that, being based on the aged and clunky Windows CE OS (Max 32MB memory footprint for apps? Seriously?), it didn't have a cat in hell's chance of standing up to iOS and Android. Bear in mind it was only canned in 2010, shortly before Windows Phone 7 based on a completely re-written OS layer came out. Bringing out a tablet based on Windows CE at that point would have been madness.