doesn't matter , w10 will make it all better
Well Microsoft is wise enough to develop a mobile version, there will be : Windows 10 and Windows 10 mobile.
I hope microsoft push the later on some tablets, vanilla Windows comes with its overhead: you might want 2GB of RAM and you need more Flash to store the OS to begin with, it binds the device to Intel processors (they are great though). On the other hand Microsoft has been offering a pretty smooth (low-end though) experience on device with 512MB of RAM and 4GO of storage with Windows phone.
The cheap low-end tablets available now are not offering a good (vanilla) windows experience, on 8 inch and less screens dealing with the Desktop is inappropriate, 1GB ram is more often than not not enough RAM for standard Windows programs, there is a manufacturing overhead through the required extra flash storage => not a good basis to define the lower end of what a pleasant windows (pure) tablet experience.
My belief is that Windows
10 mobile could alleviate most of overhead and that Microsoft needs, badly need a good low-end (lower end than the Nexus 7 2012 was at launch), a device they can flood the market with. [spoiler° windows phone could have done the job.[/spoiler]
There are good products coming with Windows 10, the new HP pavilion X2 for example looks pretty neat for 299€, I'm sure there will be a bunch of netbook , std laptops, 2 in 1, too. Thing is anytime people have interest in Windows the primary input is still a keyboard, as long as there is a keyboard and X86 programs around editor won't bother porting their apps to Windows. It also mean that the growth potential, it is about stabilizing their share in the laptop (and new fancy ones) segment.
Microsoft seems aware of that issue and from there universal app mantra they went on to announce easy way to port apps to Windows from iOS.
MSFT should and can afford to try multiple approach, they still have their line of phones yet they need every bit or marketshare possible to create intensive for app to be ported.
Imo a 99€ device, ala Amazon fire HD would be a good step in the right direction (especially with the claimed ease of port). funding some ports (a fraction of what time exclusive costs on the XB1 I would bet).
That thread is not that much about "tablets" but windows
2 in 1 devices which to me are more evolved laptop than tablets. I wonder if Microsoft is on the verge of throwing the towel on its mobile experiment soon, they have more and more on their apps on Android.
Looking at all the money MSFT invested, in hardware and software, in its mobile adventure I wonder where they would be if they had taken an approach similar to Amazon and branch off Android, they still can and it would not surprise me if cost them less money than their pretty complicated approach on touch based UI and key based ones (neither Apple or Google seems that concerned about solving the "issue" MSFT is trying to solve with universal apps).
