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2012-02-21, 15:48

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Originally Posted by addabox View Post
Right, but a phone by its very nature precludes the kind of deep functionality you need in a desktop replacement,
That is the same kind of argument that used to be made before the iPad came out, though.

(Remember the discussions in here about how an on-screen keyboard wouldn't work? About how multitasking would matter a lot more? Etc. None of these things appear to matter to the tens of millions gobbling those devices up.)

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Originally Posted by addabox View Post
which I have to assume Metro is supposed to be at some point? At least as serviceable as iOS? Using WP7 have you gotten any sense how, say, something like PowerPoint would work?
It's not clear to me yet what trajectory they see for the traditional Desktop, but the bulk of the new APIs in Windows 8 is about Metro, with desktop stuff heavily deemphasized. The hybrid approach surely isn't something they want to retain in the long run.
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