[citation][nom]osserc[/nom]I see all the business elite are in here shoving around their usual intelligence.Here's the point, why spend a year and millions of dollars creating a me-too tablet OS just to kill it immediately?By the time Win8 hits shelves tablets will be powerful enough to run it... so they're just going to develop Win8, hopefully with a lightweight and modular ecosystem, and hit the tablet market when tablets become powerful enough to be taken seriously.At this point there is no reason to have a tablet with a dock, but once tablets are running Win8 with Office in the cloud you will only have your tablet. You will dock it at home or at the office, whatever. Same computing device, take it everywhere, files in the cloud, no need for tablet plus laptop plus blah blah blah.Win8 full featured OS plus cloud apps for the next gen of tablets. That is the take-off point. Right now they are toys, and MS isn't interested in throwing away millions to power toys for six months before the big wave hits.My 2 cents, anyway.[/citation]
I completely disagree. Sorry but the 1st flaw in your argument is that productivity is extremely hard to do in the table form factor. Sitting at a workstation or a laptop allows you to do a number of things with speed and efficiency. Tablets are about convenience and ease of use.
Secondly, the cloud requires a large amount of bandwidth. I use Evernote and Dropbox now which are cloud applications and they work great but not over a 3g connection. Evernote does work over a 3g connection because the file sizes are small but when talking about presontations, image files, large documents, media files, applications and everything else the size of those are too be to be productive in any reasonable way over a 3g connection. LTE... perhaps but we do not even have full coverage of 3g with AT&T yet. Mind you, I am speaking from a mobile worker perspective.