101 reasons to love Windows Phone

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With Android and iOS out there isn't WM sort of late to the party?

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WIndows Phone 2016

And by XBOX, they mean TV. Instead of trying to build their own hardware like Apple. Can you imagine the cost of an Apple TV set in Brazil???

Take a look at this:

http://www.gsmarena.com/laugh_time_idc_says_wp_and_blackberry_will_overtake_ios-news-4357.php

Jobs was a game changer, but unable to keep-up on the long term.

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Metro seems to be aimed at ARM tablets which are cheaper to produce and run longer.  My friends inside M$ hint at a tablet version of Office, like Apple do with iWork, that is both ARM and X86. Metro is processor independent, why would you even think of running a desktop application on a tablet or heaven forfend, a phone?

I wonder if there will be x86 smartphones running the desktop Win 8 version?

That would get my juices running. Thanks to the dual GUIs, one could use it as both a smartphone or hook it up to an external monitor and keyboard and pretty much run anything you want.

With Intel Medfield being very competitive with A9 Cortex I question the need for an ARM Win 8 version. What's the point, really... even if you could theorize and say that an ARM powered tablet could be cheaper, I don't think it will be cheap enough when you factor in the fact there wont be much software to run.

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But if you have an ARM based tablet version of Office running on an ARM based Tablet Windows or Phone, why would you even care that the processor isn't X86?  M$ is cutting the thread tieing it to the Intel/AMD world.  If you can easily cross compile between Metro ARM and Metro X86, then you no longer have a developer/software issue.

The reason M$ failed in the tablet market despite having a 10 year lead was precisely because three people enjoy running desktop apps on a tablet and those three work for Microsoft.  Mobile Office will be a step towards correcting that mistake.