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Comment by robert_nsu | Hacker News Reader

That $85 price tag is a Windows RT and Office Metro bundle. So, it's not _just_ Windows in question. I think the title should be adjusted to reflect this.

Read this Windows Team blog post to see what I mean: http://windowsteamblog.com/windows/b/bloggingwindows/archive...

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They are fooling themselves if they think the Office bundle justifies the price. The rationale for the Office bundle should be to give an initial boost to an unproven platform and overcome the scarcity of Windows RT apps.

If Office Metro is half as good as the current Microsoft Office, it will be worth $85 by itself.

I say this as someone who doesn't own any Windows licenses. (Except a Windows 7 starter OEM license for my netbook.)

While it's true that they're bundled, it would also appear that Windows RT is only being delivered in bundled form(Unless I'm reading this blog post incorrectly).

So if we accept that Windows RT itself is a bundle, the headline isn't particularly misleading.

Are we witnessing something big here?

I love my iPad because it doesn't have office. It's not a laptop, it's a whole new kind of personal computer. Maybe I'm wrong but it's nothing like a laptop and as long as they're trying to make it a laptop in a different form factor I just can't see it

Really? I chose my iPad because it was the only tablet with good office software.

Ah, that makes a lot more sense. Thanks.

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