Sure, this is not going to replace anybody's iPad. That is not the point.

You don't need a gmail account to use an Android tablet. They work fine without it. Of course if you want Google Play, Gmail or other Google services then you would need an account.

Bluetooth headset and keyboard here too.

Just needs a good CDN.

The discussion around the other two had raving fans as well. But the sales were not good.

See? This is stellar community support. Complain about support for the product on a random website, get a response from a developer in 30 minutes.

Or install Linux, now without the Microsoft tax.

It's Windows tablet. I don't have to be Nostradamus to see how that is going to go.

Nerds used to run /. The sort of nerd that would have a 1080p smartphone or tablet on the first day that was available and fix this shit because it was fucking up HIS /. experience.

There are guys in Microsoft who have a strategy. Lots of them. Lately they are seldom in place long enough to execute it and see if it worked.

The first MBA I ever saw in business was with a presenter for a hardware firewall company. It was running BSD. Apparently you can run other stuff on them.

Me. 10 years running now. The special arrangements I have to make to do it are almost gone.

Microsoft has been selling Windows for Tablets since... 1995. In all this time it has been the ideal product to sell to the customer you never want to darken your doorstep again. It is a Farewell product. A grudge product. The kind of thing you sell to people who mention their lawyer in the first minute.

Blackberry is beating Blackberry. It is no great feat to walk past a Samurai as he bleeds out from committing Hara-kiri.

Sony sold their PC biz. HP is firing. IBM, who with a fit of prescience sold off their PC biz to Lenovo during the runup to Vista has now sold off their X86 server biz as well. Change is in the wind.