Too late IMO. In fact, this is also what RIMM should have done, and they still cling to their OS fantasy. People are tied into the mobile iOS and Android ecosystems. Windows Mobile may have a chance, but it will be tough - especially with the iPad mini in the mix.

Ad to that, the fact that speech recognition is built in and works reasonably well - getting better by the day.

Not from what I have seen, they made minor modifications.

Office on the tablet will be difficult to use with your finger. See video and review here:

http://www.zdnet.com/office-2013-on-windows-rt-business-as-usual-7000003594/

On the surface, you will need it for a mouse to run office, cause that will be a bear to operate with your fingers.

That is the funny part, when they start correcting each other. Spewing unintelligible error codes.

while (me=horny)
{
service me;
}

Windows SDK makes appointment with you!

Probably the emoticons app.

I am not going to argue what is innovative or not. But, many companies have no clue how to simply keep their products fresh. Design by giant committees keeps a lot of companies stale, and many get killed by change. RIMM comes to mind, and there are many others. Sure RIMM made an "innovative" new phone OS, but so did Apple and Google. RIMM's corporate structure certainly stifled their ability to innovate within a competitive time frame. Even Google recognized they were missing important new product innovations, which they specifically allocate time for their employees to work on (e.g. Twitter).

Sometimes innovation has an important back-end to make that innovation sustainable/workable. Depositing checks via mobile camera, needs a lot of back-end support. Legacy back ends can be very difficult to innovate around, and that is "invisible" to the user.

There is probably a point where the price of oil overtakes the Jevons Paradox http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pareto_efficiency

But, the Paradox does cover situations where more efficiency actually means more consumption.

I wonder what new ones will be introduced. This is a political game. O makes nice sounding announcement for meaningless rules. You want better mileage, crank up the gas tax and make drivers pay for their environmental externalities. http://www.popularmechanics.com/cars/news/fuel-economy/6-ways-detroit-gamed-the-cafe-standards-flex-fuel-loophole#slide-1

I got rid of my car about 1 year ago, and have never looked back.

In America your business is pirate - you did pirate that, RIAA happens you!

In Soviet Russia iTunes plays you!

In Soviet Russia, that didn't build you.