Early adopters for Surface RT comments

[disolitude]

ArnoldRimmer said:

disolitude said:

An x86 Windows 8 tablet like surface will OWN the business market when it comes out, no matter what the price point is. [...]

As far as consumers, go to your best buy or Staples and take a look how hard these devices are being pushed and at what price points. Every laptop, touch screen or not has been upgraded to Windows 8 and some even start at $249. 

Absolutely correct. But the original topic was Surface RT, and now we are pretty much just talking general dominance of Windows OS on x86 computers, which always come bundled with the latest Windows OS.

On x86 computers, there's just no noteworthy competition whatsoever. The ARM-based devices are what's going to be interesting, because there's competition: Windows RT devices vs. Android tablets vs. iPad. If Microsoft really manages to get the biggest market share on these devices, I would be deeply impressed.

I agree with you and like I said, I slammed Surface RT in a seperat thread. They will never be the biggest ARM player in town, but their app store will be formidable within 6 months.

I kind of do understand what they are doing though with Surface and Win RT. They are essentially piggybacking Windows RT off Windows 8 and providing a stop gap until Intel catches up with ARM in terms of battery and size. They are already pretty close and in a year or two x86 should be as efficient as ARM.