@thomg57 - regarding current tablets, you're absolutely right - iPad and Android have Windows completely beat. For now. I am willing to bet that in 12-18 months time, when Win8 is released, that it will sport a new UI for tablet scenarios that takes the best elements of Windows Phone's Metro UI along with a bunch of new and improved features including voice recognition (which is already well served via Windows and improved upon by Windows Phone 7), touch and gestures (from WinPhone and Surface) and a host of other improvements born from IE, Silverlight, XNA, etc.Since we've already seen early builds of Win8 running on credit-card sized ARM boards, I also expect that Win8 will be available on a wide variety of slim, sleek, fast but power-frugal ARM-based tablets and phones.Microsoft is already...