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Microsoft playing the "Look everyone, we're going to do that too - and more! The greatest thing ever is coming out from us real soon now so you should stick with us and not switch to that shiny thing over there" game is hardly surprising...

What's the Windows version right around the corner this time? 8? Oh. /This/ time it's going to be great, honest? Tablets? Yeah... exciting.

Whatever, Microsoft. Fool me once...

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If you actually think about this for more than 5 seconds, you'd realise that they're releasing an OS that's both a successor to windows 7 and a tablet OS. It's like Apple merging iOS and OSX[1] and releasing it as OSX 10.8!

[1] yes, both have same core, but they have different set of functionalities. And they are gonna merge it somewhere down the road.

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