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Dell drops Windows RT, only Microsoft remains selling the OS
In the fall of 2012, five companies offered tablets or PCs that ran on Microsoft's new ARM-based Windows RT. Now just one company is actively selling such a product and it happens to be Microsoft. This week, the last remaining third party Windows RT hardware provider, Dell, stopped selling its lone product that used the OS, the XPS 10.
Dell's online store now lists the XPS 10 as being "unavailable" and offers the Windows 8-based Latitude 10 tablet as a possible alternative. Earlier this year, Neil Hand, the head of Dell's tablet and high-end PC business, stated the company still plans to introduce new Windows RT devices, but so far, it has yet to make any such product announcements. A long term strategy that involves alienating manufacturing partners and confusing consumers? Microsoft tried to compete with Android and iOS with a product that was more expensive and had a much more limited ecosystem - the biggest advantage it had was Office and even that was simply a poorly ported version of the desktop version rather than the dedicated touch-version that customers expected.
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#4662835 Posted on: 09/26/2013 07:30 PM
Meh, I like the idea of the Surface RT. If I bought a Pro I'd be buying a laptop and start installing crap on it.
Yeah they could've marketed it better with the differences but noobs will be noobz.
Meh, I like the idea of the Surface RT. If I bought a Pro I'd be buying a laptop and start installing crap on it.
Yeah they could've marketed it better with the differences but noobs will be noobz.
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#4662842 Posted on: 09/26/2013 07:37 PM
Having the Windows name hurt it a lot. Nothing of value lost though.
Having the Windows name hurt it a lot. Nothing of value lost though.
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#4662930 Posted on: 09/26/2013 09:30 PM
Problem with RT was that it was only distributed to OEMs and the fact that they still offered a desktop but only a few small few apps could use it.
If they allowed any apps to run on the desktop in Windows RT, this would have worked. Microsoft just really screwed it up, it's either give full access to the desktop or remove the desktop completely.
deltatux
Problem with RT was that it was only distributed to OEMs and the fact that they still offered a desktop but only a few small few apps could use it.
If they allowed any apps to run on the desktop in Windows RT, this would have worked. Microsoft just really screwed it up, it's either give full access to the desktop or remove the desktop completely.
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#4663216 Posted on: 09/27/2013 07:23 AM
haswell rendered it useless, and you can bet intel continues to catch up with ARM and make ipads and android tablets useless too
haswell rendered it useless, and you can bet intel continues to catch up with ARM and make ipads and android tablets useless too
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#4663218 Posted on: 09/27/2013 07:27 AM
Problem with RT was that it was only distributed to OEMs and the fact that they still offered a desktop but only a few small few apps could use it.
If they allowed any apps to run on the desktop in Windows RT, this would have worked. Microsoft just really screwed it up, it's either give full access to the desktop or remove the desktop completely.
deltatux
This is microsoft being microsoft which is to say they do that alot the screwing up and backtracking as result cause of it
Problem with RT was that it was only distributed to OEMs and the fact that they still offered a desktop but only a few small few apps could use it.
If they allowed any apps to run on the desktop in Windows RT, this would have worked. Microsoft just really screwed it up, it's either give full access to the desktop or remove the desktop completely.
deltatux
This is microsoft being microsoft which is to say they do that alot the screwing up and backtracking as result cause of it
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#4663221 Posted on: 09/27/2013 07:33 AM
Honestly, the way I see tablets is different than how Microsoft sees tablets. I honestly don't think a full fledge desktop and windowed apps should really exist on tablets, the UI interaction is just different with a touchscreen. I tried a Windows tablet and I personally couldn't stand using the desktop applications without traditional mouse and keyboard.
Microsoft should have just completely dropped the desktop for Windows RT if they wanted a more "traditional" tablet experience with their ARM product.
deltatux
haswell rendered it useless, and you can bet intel continues to catch up with ARM and make ipads and android tablets useless too
Honestly, the way I see tablets is different than how Microsoft sees tablets. I honestly don't think a full fledge desktop and windowed apps should really exist on tablets, the UI interaction is just different with a touchscreen. I tried a Windows tablet and I personally couldn't stand using the desktop applications without traditional mouse and keyboard.
Microsoft should have just completely dropped the desktop for Windows RT if they wanted a more "traditional" tablet experience with their ARM product.
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#4663244 Posted on: 09/27/2013 08:17 AM
Honestly, the way I see tablets is different than how Microsoft sees tablets. I honestly don't think a full fledge desktop and windowed apps should really exist on tablets, the UI interaction is just different with a touchscreen. I tried a Windows tablet and I personally couldn't stand using the desktop applications without traditional mouse and keyboard.
Microsoft should have just completely dropped the desktop for Windows RT if they wanted a more "traditional" tablet experience with their ARM product.
deltatux
At which point they would end up being a poor third wheel between Android and iOS; with nothing in their favor (Office needs the desktop even in RT).
At this point with Bay Trail around the corner, having Windows RT in OEM tablet is all but gone.
Honestly, the way I see tablets is different than how Microsoft sees tablets. I honestly don't think a full fledge desktop and windowed apps should really exist on tablets, the UI interaction is just different with a touchscreen. I tried a Windows tablet and I personally couldn't stand using the desktop applications without traditional mouse and keyboard.
Microsoft should have just completely dropped the desktop for Windows RT if they wanted a more "traditional" tablet experience with their ARM product.
deltatux
At which point they would end up being a poor third wheel between Android and iOS; with nothing in their favor (Office needs the desktop even in RT).
At this point with Bay Trail around the corner, having Windows RT in OEM tablet is all but gone.
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#4663424 Posted on: 09/27/2013 03:05 PM
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