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A comment on Microsoft's ARM blunder: Why Windows RT was DOA.

Re:Microsoft's ARM blunder: Why Windows RT was DOA by timbre on Saturday January 19, 2013 @12:20PM (#5083951)
Has Microsoft ever produced a good version 1? Maybe XBox? I don't know much about games. But for the most part I think what MS is good at is slowly improving a turd until it's really quite nice. DOS, Windows, IE, Office, and Visual Studio were all much worse than their competition initially, but successful by their fourth versions or so.

But I don't know if MS has the heart anymore to go through a few rounds of failure to reach success.

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Re:Microsoft's ARM blunder: Why Windows RT was DOA by rednukleus on Saturday January 19, 2013 @12:30PM (#5083981)
Most big tech products are like that. The first Android and iOS devices were pretty crap (but showed promise).
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