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pohl on June 18, 2012 | parent | context | favorite | on: Final thoughts on Windows 8: A design disaster

When iOS was introduced, Apple had existing OSX customers. Microsoft does not have so many tablet enterprise clients that have to drag the desktop metaphor along just to appease them. Their enterprise clients didn't have to dictate what the XBox was. Tablets could be just as free of legacy as it.

freehunter on June 18, 2012 [–]

ARM tablets won't have the legacy desktop. Only x86 installs will have that, because that's where the legacy support is needed.

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