Tablet Computers. Are they worth it or is it just a bunch of hype?

SoC wrote:

No. Toshiba, HP, etc. can't help that Windows 7 that sucks.

No, they apparently can't help promoting their own corporate agendas when they configure those custom OEM builds of Windows 7, even if it means that the end user experience suffers as a result. Here is a good article that summarizes many of the problems:

Nobody cares. It's iPad and Android now.

I'm good. My guess is I'll be switching to Android when my company does this summer.

SoC wrote:

I'm good. My guess is I'll be switching to Android when my company does this summer.

Very nice... Android is an excellent platform. However, I suspect that part of you will sincerely miss the opportunity to declare that "Win7 sucks" based primarily upon urban legends. That being said, the fact that you wouldn't have any in-depth knowledge of fill-in-the-blank (in this case, the operating system) has rarely stopped people from bashing on the LetsRun message boards.

Nobody cares. It's iPad and Android now.

Bye wrote:

Nobody cares. It's iPad and Android now.

no matter how many iphones, ipads, macs, androids and whatever comes out some sort of Windows OS will dominate 75%+ of the market.

MS doesn't have a tablet OS. How does a non-existent OS dominate 75% of the tablet market?

If the MS phone OS's are included, then MS has an 8% market share, which down from a nearly 20% share 2 & 1/2 years ago.

MS will never have a 75% OS market share for phones or tablets.

http://www.thenoisecast.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/03/windows_phone_market_share.jpg

Bye wrote:

Nobody cares. It's iPad and Android now.

Eventually, perhaps... but not just yet. "Now," they possess 1.81% and 0.52% of the operating system market share respectively. As a result, it's safe to say that it is probably going to be a little while longer before they take over the industry:

so true wrote:

MS will never have a 75% OS market share for phones or tablets.

That wasn't the original reference point. Our friend "Bye" was providing a (trolling) counter-point to Windows 7, so the reference point encompassed all operating systems.

2 Billion Java phones are 90% of the world market for smart phones. iMode phones are the #1 smart phones in the 3G/4G world with 50 Million in East Asia. In the English speaking market iPhone/iPad & Android are coming on strong. They are being held back by piss poor telecomm carrier infrastructure. The next tsunami is OSs for smartphone, tablet, pad, timepiece, game console, entertainment kiosks from the gigantic opensource Java, Linux, and Ubuntu communities. The bottom line is that it's a wide open market for high quality products. We will see hundreds of major OSs that won't crash every day, won't have to be rebooted every day, and won't halt everyday.

Okay, I assumed he meant Windows 7 phone, which will likely be the basis for Windows 7 tablets. MS would be better off renaming Windows 7 of mobile devices to distinguish it from Windows 7 OS. Maybe Windows 7m, of for Windows 7 mobile.

MS will likely go with names such as, with several sub-level permutations for each:

Windows 7 [implied PC OS]

Windows 7 Phone

Windows 7 Tablet

Going with something like;

Windows 7, and

Windows 7m

would be much simpler.

What you should know is that dozens of Unix (not Linux, the chip companies won't use Linux) Operating Systems run on every iPhone, Android Pad, Nissan Leaf, Blackberry, Tomahawk missile, etc. Nearly every hard drive, SSD drive, Blue Ray drive, cable modem, WiFi chip, 3G, EVDO, 4G, GPS, A3, A4, A5, Fpga, Cpld, SOC, GPU, USB, CF/USB, Ethernet, etc. chip, etc. runs Unix inside.

Microsoft nightmare is over ! wrote:

We will see hundreds of major OSs that won't crash every day, won't have to be rebooted every day, and won't halt everyday.

One of two factors has influenced that statement:

1. You are greatly exaggerating the frequency that it actually happens... a bad habit for men to develop!

2. Your Sys Admin and Config Mgmt staff are horrendous

My "major OS" virtually never crashes or halts (99.997% up time) and averages one reboot per month.

Acer tried to promote tablets 10yrs ago, and it didn't work. Now everybody wants one, and there are at least 10 others coming out this spring

Acer, HP, Toshiba, Dell, IBM, hell, even Iran and their homies in Israel ;-) have tried to sell Windows on tablet PCs for decades. They have them on their websites now. But Windows sucks. That's why tablets haven't sold at all. Not until Apple and Android that is.

I'm good. My guess is I'll be switching to Android when my company does this summer.

I take that back. I'm NOT good. My Tosh just BSOD'd again. I was copying files between the onboard SATA c:/ drive to two external USB2.0 drives g:/ and h:/ and I it BillGatesed (aka BSOD) on me.

BSOD = Ballmer Screen of Denial

East Asian phones stink. They used to be way ahead in Japan but their phones are now garbage. Stuffed to the brim with features but no usability. Like everyone else they were caught by surprise by iphone.

Microsoft nightmare is over ! wrote:

2 Billion Java phones are 90% of the world market for smart phones. iMode phones are the #1 smart phones in the 3G/4G world with 50 Million in East Asia. In the English speaking market iPhone/iPad & Android are coming on strong. They are being held back by piss poor telecomm carrier infrastructure. The next tsunami is OSs for smartphone, tablet, pad, timepiece, game console, entertainment kiosks from the gigantic opensource Java, Linux, and Ubuntu communities. The bottom line is that it's a wide open market for high quality products. We will see hundreds of major OSs that won't crash every day, won't have to be rebooted every day, and won't halt everyday.

Let's stay on topic. All of you anti microsoft tools can start your own thread.

Spare us your tired anti windows refrences. Go and play Dungeons and Dragons before Mom tells you to get in bed.