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Microsoft's Metro proves the PC is dead (zdnet.com)
2 points by rbanffy on Sept 20, 2011 | hide | past | favorite | 1 comment



Long live the PC!

I'm as tired of these proclamations an anyone else. But MS does seem to be in trouble long run, because its business model has been disrupted. Even if Metro is a wild success, it will be on devices that aren't expensive enough for them to command the margins of traditional Windows/Office.

That said, I find Metro to be very interesting, and might even dovetail with this in some ways: http://blog.byjoemoon.com/post/9325300749/a-different-kind-o...




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