[citation][nom]pur3_purpl3[/nom]You guys don't understand the premise of Windows 8, do you? It's not a phone OS. It's not a tablet OS. It's Windows 8, but it has been optimized to potentially run on mobile devices, since that's where the market is heading. Comparing iOS 4.3 to Windows is like saying lab rats are more intelligent than humans... Believe me "prematureannouncementftl", releasing the next version of Windows goes waaayyy past Win Phone7, because PC's are, and always will be, faster, better, and cost more money - hence, releasing a new, popular, version of Windows, at the expense of stunting the growth of a mobile phone OS, is completely valid, and not weird at all.[/citation]
You're clueless where popular computing is heading, aren't you? 95+% of the computer using population (and that includes most businesses) have no need of a desktop OS. They may not realise it yet, but it will dawn. My doctor's surgery was full of Dell's a year ago. Now they all have iPad's