No question that Samsung is trying to piggyback off the success of the Apple design, but CONFUSE? How does that work? I accidentally bought a $500 Samsung tablet with the word "SAMSUNG" printed in all caps on the front and the back, thinking it was an Apple. Those tricksters!!

It remains to be seen if the Medfield SOC can eke out similar battery life to an ARM powered tablet. From the little I've read on that front, the signs are mixed at best. But otherwise I totally agree. If W8/Medfield meets its goals, it will probably do the same thing to WOA that Pentium did to the Alpha/MIPS/PPC versions of WNT.

If by saying "interact...with a traditional desktop paradigm" I somehow gave you the impression that I thought somehow Metro apps could be made to work lik Windows 7 type apps, I apologize. What I meant was, to quote from your same link, "Windows on ARM will have the desktop as an option for Internet Explorer, the Office apps and various system functions, such as the control panel, file management and other built-in features of Windows," and that that familiar paradigm is a selling point for WOA devices.

Metro is also part of Windows 8. So:

If you're doing Windows desktop management, the experience will be the same on your desktop and your tablet
If you're running a traditional windows app (to the extent that you can, i.e.Office), the experience will be the same on your desktop and your tablet.
If you're running a Metro style app, the experience will be the same on your desktop and your tablet.

iOS (currently) doesn't make that claim with respect to OSX.

Why are uninformed FUD comments like this getting modded up? The blogpost clearly states that WOA devices will be unequivocally labelled to strongly distinguish them from traditional x86/64 devices.

WOA is not an attempt to replace Windows with a gimped version of itself. It's meant to be another member of the Windows family, like Windows Server, Windows Phone, etc., that extends the basic Windows paradigm to devices where it does not have significant market share. It is basically a rearchitected Windows CE that takes into account the rise of iOS.

iOS is derived from OSX, but you wouldn't expect to run an OSX application on iOS. So Joe Q Public is already primed to the idea that top-tier desktop applications won't run on WOA, and from reading the article, it seems that the marketing of the tablet devices will make that abundantly clear. Windows 8 Desktop is the successor to Windows 7 and WOA is something different, a competitor to iOS that has a Windows-esque look and feel.

Where WOA claims to have an advantage over iOS is, first, that it will allow users interact with the device with a traditional desktop paradigm, if they choose. Secondly, WOA apps, unlike iOS apps, will be also able to be run on your traditional desktop/laptop, making for a much more integrated total experience. And thirdly and most importantly, MS Office.

However, if the concept of being able to "up-run" your tablet apps on your desktop proves fruitful, there's no engineering reason why Apple couldn't do the same thing. And of course, once Apple did do it, suddenly up-running your apps would be the most awesomeish thing ever.

Yet that's a bad thing?

The argument is not that it's a bad thing, but that it's a thing he should be properly taxed on.

Not everyone believes that taxation is inherently punitive.

I do agree that the whole concept is a pointlessly complex way of accomplishing what a properly implemented inheritance tax could accomplish more cheaply, but:

Ok, I'm a middle class person, I have 50k invested in a 401k

From the article:

For individuals and married couples who earn, say, more than $2.2 million in income, or own $5.7 million or more in publicly traded securities (representing the top 0.1 percent of families), the appreciation in their publicly traded stock and securities would be “marked to market” and taxed annually as if they had sold their positions at year’s end, regardless of whether the securities were actually sold.

So, you, a middle class person with less than $5.7 million in publicly traded securities, would not be affected.

Nonsense, of course there are things we can do about it. Gigantic beach umbrellas. In space.

Something which is comprised of living things is by class inheritance alive. Hence mules via their cells. And corporations via their "citizens united."

Unless they're brutal, bloodthirsty warriors with some primitive sense of honor. Then they resemble black people with maybe some ridges on their forehead or something.

How is this "treason"? The US government actively sought to encourage trade and investment between US and China, and IBM followed suit. If the US wanted to forbid business with China, we would've done so the same way we continued to embargo Cuba for many years.

Furthermore, selling for less so you can make more down the road, is part of good business strategy, no different from when milk goes on sale at the local supermarket, or when you change jobs to take a lower paying position in a growing company, or when software companies offer academic discounts, or when a credit card has an interest-free teaser rate.