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Microsoft's deciding to make Windows run on mobile computing hardware has the potential to be the smartest thing they have done in a long time. I have to believe the hardware will be ready by the time the software is. Execution will be everything, and from that standpoint Microsoft has a lot of work to do making windows touch-friendly, but the potential payoff could be huge. I have to believe Apple is thinking similarly, we know they would not be saying anything if they were, so no surprise there. A Windows Phone 7 phone, Android phone or iPhone that could run Windows or OSX when docked, the future indeed looks bright!

I hope that the Nirvana software is anything but a temporary workaround. Being able to use the device with a real operating system, that doesn't require you to go through an applications store - Android has one too, even if their policies are not exactly the same as Apple's - is an important capability.

The description of Apple's success with the iPad is the most objective, asserted description I have read... ever !

I do disagree with the term "minimal client." On the Xoom (Tegra 2 chip as in Atrix) I can use Google Earth, and play taxing games. If you compare that with what the industry referred to a "minimal client" in the 90's you see my complaint. These are powerful machines (the Tegra 2 I mean). They are not clients, they are mobile computers.

WallyDuke, on 07 March 2011 - 04:51 PM, said:

Yes, windows has alot of capacity to be in tablet, already being a proven os with lots of capacity. Even now, it is basically the only tablet os that can truly replace a netbook.