[citation][nom]Insightdriver[/nom]regulas, you did not read for comprehension. It was a comparison that AndrewMD made to the "instant-on" feature that is nearly required in a slate type product. It had nothing to do with the merits of Window CE as an OS. He was simply saying that Winows 7 can't be an instant-on OS by design (and Windows CE was).[/citation]
I'm not sure if we should be excited by an OS that switches on faster so we can get nothing done quicker.
If you were given the choice of a 30 second boot but can run MS Office, attach a USB flash drive, edit pictures, print them on your printer, then drop copies on the flash drive to hand over, then relaxing listening to some music via iTunes.
Or.
Booting in less than 5 seconds and then fighting with the device to perform any of the above tasks, well, maybe not such a good idea.
Does your printer have a Windows CE driver?
Can you install Nero on Windows CE?
Photoshop?
iTunes?
This isn't power-user stuff, even the most basic luddite who has no real understanding of computers does photo editing, burning onto DVDs and listen to music.
Some will say that you can work around all that stuff if you do this and that and the other, but you have to make it accessible for the simplest part of the equation - the basic user.