[af_vet_rr]

IPad killer? Maybe not, but Windows 8 and the innovative Windows 8 tablets we just saw at Comuptex 2012 in Taiwan is going to put Microsoft firmly in the tablet game.

The problem with that thinking is that Microsoft was in the tablet game.

Hell, they were the tablet game for many years.

Many of the same people making the decisions when Microsoft pissed away their tablet and smartphone markets are the very same people still making decisions.

Until you have a product guy running the company, MS is going to have issues in a lot of markets. Ballmer is a marketing kind of guy, not a product guy, and his tenure at Microsoft proves it. Gates and Jobs were product guys.

You need Gates back in there. Just as Jobs did his best work after a long absence from Apple, I think Gates could do the same for Microsoft. Maybe somebody should tell him that they spotted a mosquito with malaria in Redmond or something.

[SmokingJoe]

“The problem with that thinking is that Microsoft was in the tablet game. “

Yeah..running on the older power hungry, battery consuming, thicker form factor Intel chips. Read the article again. Not great for tablets.
These new Intel chips can hang with the best ARM chips in terms of power consumption. Plus there is an ARM version of Windows 8 as well.

“Many of the same people making the decisions when Microsoft pissed away their tablet and smartphone markets are the very same people still making decisions”

The XBOX 360(apart from the initial RROD issues, which still didn't stop sales) has been very successful, and has been the top selling video game console in this country for over a year(regularly besting the Wii and PS3), not to mention the superb XBOX Live, which is simply unmatched in terms of online play/features for video game consoles.