Seeing this a bunch of places today, but my favorite headline is definitely MG Siegler’s, writing for parislemon.com.
I was never hot on the idea of running desktop apps on a tablet, and more than a little skeptical of Microsoft being able to run an entire Windows OS on something cheapish like an ARM tablet, so this doesn’t really come as a surprise. Also, as John Gruber points out, it’s not like existing apps would have “just worked”. They would have had to be recompiled for the ARM architecture, or have an intermediary of virtualization in between.
Personally, I think this is a good thing for Windows 8 that runs on tablets, but I think MS just lost a big differentiator to why you should buy their tablet instead of Apple’s or Amazon’s.
