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Video: Ballmer dances around Windows Phone 7 tablet

By | October 22, 2010, 5:38am PDT

At the Gartner Symposium ITxpo in Orlando, Fla., Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer talks to analysts about the possibility of a Windows Phone 7 tablet. We covered Ballmer’s hints on Thursday, but here’s the video.

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gavin.chan 2nd Oct
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There is a war internally, you can be sure. Without Windows 7 on tablets,
DonnieBoy Updated - 22nd Oct 2010
Microsoft is just another also ran, way behind the competition. With Windows 7, the costs skyrocket, and it is hard to get the battery life, size and weight that you want. All of those Win32 applications are really not appropriate on a tablet anyway - even if you could shoehorn in a more tablet appropriate interface over the top of Windows 7.

Funny to watch them squirm.
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LOL! Sure thing DB.
John Zern 22nd Oct 2010
DonnieBoy, if you looked for facts, instead of making them up, maybe you'd be taken seriouslly.

I think you're scared: Android tablets on the market noware going nowehere, yet everyone keeps talking Windows tablet.

I admit that it's a riot to watch you squirm DB, but I do tend to feel sorry for you, sometimes. wink
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Well, Apple even out-smarted Google on tablets. The Arm system-on-a-chip,
DonnieBoy Updated - 22nd Oct 2010
with RAM integrated in the same package was brilliant, and allowed them to hit very good price points for a tablet, BUT WITH UNBELIEVABLE MARGINS LIKE APPLE LIKES TO SEE.

But, back to Microsoft's dilemma. If they go with Windows 7, tablets are more expensive, thicker, heavier, hotter, and there are not any Win32 applications appropriate for tablets anyway.

If they go with Windows Phone 7 tablets, they are way behind Apple and Google. There is nothing that MS can do with Windows Phone 7 that Apple and Google have not already done, and they will have a huge disadvantage on available applications.
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RE: Video: Ballmer dances around Windows Phone 7 tablet
FADS_z 22nd Oct 2010
@DonnieBoy : All of those Win32 applications are really not appropriate on a tablet anyway

You sure? The only tablet I am going to buy: it must run win32 applications.
BTW, PDA used to have compact .net framework -- means you can develop applications using visual studio, basically the same development environment to develop other applications these days.
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Well, there are not enough Windows propeller heads to make a mass market.
DonnieBoy 22nd Oct 2010
All of those Win32 applications have to be re-written to be appropriate for a tablet. But, in any case, Win32 is dying, as evidenced by the sales of the iPad. This is the most successful electronics gadget of all time. Given that it will NOT run Windows applications, that is VERY telling.
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The other funny thing to notice, is that Balmer is waiting for newer
DonnieBoy Updated - 22nd Oct 2010
hardware from Intel coming next year to rescue him and get him out of the dilemma. The problem with that is, Arm will be even better next year, and Apple will be able to one-up Microsoft again, holding the 500 dollar price line, and maybe even hitting 15 or 20 hours battery life with even better performance.
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RE: Video: Ballmer dances around Windows Phone 7 tablet
drphysx 22nd Oct 2010
@DonnieBoy What do you need 20 hours of battery life for when the device can't do anything that matters?

Sometimes some people actually have to get some work done. That's just not possible with any iDevice.
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Define work please
use_what_works_4_U 22nd Oct 2010
@drphysx
I get a lot of work done on my iPhone 3G. Of course that work is usually communicating with my customer base via email, but it is certainly work.
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RE: Video: Ballmer dances around Windows Phone 7 tablet
5ri 22nd Oct 2010
@DonnieBoy Win8 will run on ARM. Until then, its either WP7 on ARM (or) Win7 on x86.
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Guys, GET A CLUE. The mass market has spoken. Win32 on tablets is NOT
DonnieBoy Updated - 22nd Oct 2010
necessary. Microsoft is way behind, and putting Win32 on a tablet at the expense of hotter, heavier, thicker, more expensive is a non-starter.
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RE: Video: Ballmer dances around Windows Phone 7 tablet
drphysx 22nd Oct 2010
@DonnieBoy There have never been affordable Win32 tablets on the market.

How can a market 'have spoken' that has never even existed?

Get a clue.
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Man, the the Windows propeller heads are beside themselves, do not know
DonnieBoy Updated - 22nd Oct 2010
what to do. They have no response, and are madly marking all of my posts as spam!!
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Please go rant somewhere else
use_what_works_4_U 22nd Oct 2010
@DonnieBoy
Your Fanboism is showing
Signed,
Macadam
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good idea about android
gavin.chan 30th Sep
A good post. Thanks for sharing.Hi, do you own a tablet pc? We supply kinds of tablet computers, including 7 inch touch screen tablet . Buy a apad tablet pc 7 inch from China at wholesale price.XOC0L
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good idea about android
gavin.chan 2nd Oct
A good post. Thanks for sharing.Hi, do you own a tablet pc? We supply kinds of tablet computers, including 3g wifi tablet . Buy a multi touch capacitive tablet from China at wholesale price.nhp1g

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