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...can you imagine an ad for a new pc - from Microsoft - called the xbox.

(sort of like an old band name - The xbox) ... but this time - it is the REAL THING

everything.  (all pc - all game - all set top -  all in one)

3 or 4 flavours. ... no licences... no BSA ....  You know how you take out apple? you cut down the tree.

small OEMs could still sell linux or chrome OS or a winOS like now. but it would be a free version.

(yip)   It would be free - and it would even come with some rudimentary online - stuff- whatever that worked...  it wouldn't be crippled.  But mostly - these small OEMs would disappear - as the idea here is to build an Xbox - pc. so perfect and cheap - you don't want any config changes.  3 or 4 flavors - from low to high in price.  A set top PC / xbox. Really - it is to make Xbox the apple killer.

Make Xbox the new PC - to put all current OEMs out of business - then take on Google and Apple with it.  just one name too... xbox.. phone.. xbox pc  xbox server  xbox home xbox office

goodbye windows!   it is xbox - that is microsoft's most valuable / trendy brand.

haha ok lets hear you all disagree!  lol

you go hardware.

you are free from pricing ideas on win and office

everything is based off device

... wow that must be hard... i dont know though .. would i buy the device that supports windows and office and photoshop and corel? of course.

Make your own computers. make your own laptops. make your own phones.

NO ONE WANTS TO PAY for software - mr gates - you were wrong in your college article.

hardware wins. you cant pirate hardware.  enough with the software.

put all your partners out of business - then take out google and apple

if you dont have the guts or ideas to do it...

i do!

i got joby and james an xbox last christmas - i am uncle hero!  

how about this idea...

currently you go to a book store and buy a book. lets assume that book (printed with cover and colour) costs 5 dollars of the 40 dollars price of the book.

So now lets assume - that using LED / foldable LCD / and a bunch of other OCD - ICA names (fake) that we can make a disposable tablet - within ....that costs 5 dollars - within 5 years.

so now every book in a bookstore (today) is a tablet in itself.

so tell me again why i should pay a grand for windows bloody tablet!!  lol

and... if you want to watch something ... thats 15 minutes long... but is the newest there is of Flight of the Concords - for charity even...

its funny if watch all of it

2 days ago, Bass wrote

Personally jamie you aren't taking this far enough. I'd like to see tablets that give you money, that is you go to the store, and buy a few tablets and they hand you a check.

someday they will - the value of the tablet will be eclipsed by the offerings within it.  the companies will underwrite them - they will become the new flyers - but you dont print them over and over (saving company money) ,,and consumers accept them on that premise (hopefully)

This is why supporting the idea that tablets are EXPENSIVE EXCLUSIVE devices is a no-win

and why trying to sell what i want - windows on a tablet - wont work at your current price points.

i really am not insane - but when i get excited about something it can come off that way

i still love ms ... but MMMMAAAAANNNN...how long must i wait for something i consider consumer side NON-hostile.... 

like polaroid android - 99 dollars

..the only thing subliminal about a 900 dollar tablet- with no 2 million apps is....

.... the idea that someone would purchase it.

Awww BOOM!

i still have over 100 of them

well...maybe 50.  ish.  (They're delicious!)

<<STOP THAT ITS SILLY>>

There is no cannibalism on Channel 9 - I repeat - There is no - ..could you pass the Horseradish over ... - Cannib... - no not the Dijon - the radish you *!"

oh ya - it's balmer... 

PRICES =  300 dollars for full tablet and 100 dollars for 8" tablet.

 ..full windows 8 XPerience  (RT for sponors=free tablet)

Winning!