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Originally Posted by DamianJ
Have you tried the win8 beta? I don't think metro works at all on a desktop. Do you? I can see what they are trying to do, but it just makes no sense in terms of UI. Why put a tablet OS on a desktop? Find out soon though.
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Unfortunately for Microsoft they have a history of poorly implementing very good ideas, which later get taken over by competitors and become very successful. They had tablets out long before the iPad but they sucked mostly due to the need for a 'stylus' and the horribly complex interface. I have a feeling the final versions of Windows8 will be much more polished than failures like Vista were.
We will see if they have learned their lesson and gone with a much more simple approach. If they have they stand to make bank on the concepts, if they haven't someone else will take them and run with it. The notion of a real cross-platform OS bridging the gap between iPad and laptop is ripe for reward right now. So is the 'cellphone/tablet' device.
