Wow, dude!
Arrogant much?
Look, being in the industry does not give you a crystal ball into the future, and much less into what’s going to be coming down the pike 1 or 2 or 3 years down the line. I’m in the industry too, but I don’t go around bragging about my credentials in order to try to give my arguments any more strength. In fact, I’ve very likely been in the industry a lot longer than you have.
Now, if you don’t know what Windows 8 is really going to contain as features, and unless you are privy to that information, then you don’t really have anything of value to make your predictions more valuable than that of anyone else.
Come back to this discussion in 1 or 1/2 years, and then, if you are correct, I can take some of your arrogance and you can tell me and everyone else “I told you so!”.
Meanwhile, all that you have is that typical fanbois preference and blustering that is found in a lot of tech blogs where it’s either Apple that is setting the world on fire, and other times it’s Google, and other times, Microsoft.
Don’t do that, it’s not very flattering for a professional.
Sidestep the issues - You too are a professional? And you don't konw this extremely basic concept? What do you do? Shipping and Invoice?
Ignore the facts - Flash is Software Emulation, any newbie to the industry knows this requires considerable memory thrash. Memory Thrash burns cycles, burning cycles also burns power. It's really that simple
Namecall - I'm arrogant, I'm a fanboi?
Do grow up - there is an excuse for not knowing, that's simply a lack of experience. But you exhibit a lack of maturity. That's not name-calling, that's a demonstatable fact; re-read your post, not very mature, in fact it reads like a fairly literate high school student wrote it. Congrats on passing the spell checker test.
There is an intelligent reason Apple went with the A4 processor. In a mobile device, you do everything you can to conserve power. You turn off parts of the chip you aren't using, you constantly put the device into S1 or S2 states, you use power efficient chips, displays and pack the biggest batteries into your left-over space that meet the size/cost ratio you have to work with.
Like it or not, Adobe Flash, Apple's own .avi format, Windows .mvw, the .mkv, .mov, .mod and others REQUIRE processing be done. That's why none of those formats are supported either. Adobe Flash is a resource hog - and it's also been tied to numerous virus attacks due to it's numerous exploits. It's not something you would want tied to your OS. Remember Apple rushed a patch out, because you could jailbreak your iphone simply by visiting a website and using an Adobe .pdf exploit to break into the OS?
You could opt to make a hardware chip that would decode any one of these, but that chip would be LIMITED to ONLY do a few of those, and only under certain conditions (resolution, frame-rate, MIP size, ect.). Apple chose to use the .mp4 and H.264 format.
There is nothing 'Fanboi' about recognizing a superior approach. If as a 'professional' you do not grasp this concept, perhaps you ought to choose another profession.
If you were a competent professional, you would know about Page Files, Virtual Memory, Memory Paging and Virtual Memory. Windows 95, 98, 2000, XP, Vista, Win7, WinCE and yes - even Win7 Mobile all use this concept to address memory spaces that are not physically present. This causes what a simpleton (who knows the industry) calls "Memory Thrash". Simply stated, for your education - real memory is 'thrashed' with numerous R/W operations to sustain the virutal memory. This is done within relatively small memory 'Page'. Every R/W operation consumes power. A 'Good' mobile OS uses as few of these as possible. There is a reason MSFT has failed with WinCE, and is failing again with Win7 Mobile. Delivering a feature-poor mobile OS, over a year late, followed by delivering the SDK 6 months later - didn't help.
These are all facts, no bragging, no arrogance - these are solid, quantifiable facts. What if MSFT does something else is 'magical thinking'. Do you have any evidence that MSFT has changed the strategy they have used for the past 20 years? Did you know that there were hordes of tablets scheduled to come out with Win7 Home running on an Atom processor? Did you know that every single one of them saw that the product had no legs - and they cancelled the programs entirely? Did you know that the HP Slate was supposed to be released over a year ago? Did you know that HP bought Palm because they realized that MSFT didn't have a clue as to what to put into a mobile OS? Guesss these folks are all arrogant too, huh?