This is going to suck if you’re Microsoft.
Dell has kicked two new tablets out to the world. Called the Dell Venue 7 & Venue 8, they’re Intel Atom based tablets with 7″ or 8″ screens that run Android. You read that correctly. They don’t run a Microsoft product. Not much is known in the way of specifics beyond what I’ve stated, but they’re due to ship in October. There’s also a Venue 8 Pro and Venue 11 Pro tablet that runs Windows 8.1 and Office Home & Student 2013 and are slated to be “coming soon.”
But that’s only half the story. The other half of the story is that Dell has killed off its Windows RT Tablets according to CNet:
Neil Hand, head of tablets at Dell, on Wednesday said his company won’t be releasing a new Windows RT device to follow up its product from a year ago.
“We are not planning to refesh our current line of RT products,” Hand said at a Dell tablet and PC launch event here. “We’re really focused on full Windows products…The full Windows experience provides great capability.”
That seems to be another nail in Windows RT’s coffin. That does lead me to a question. Is anyone other than Microsoft making a Windows RT device?
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Dell Releases New Tablets And Pulls The Plug On Windows RT
This is going to suck if you’re Microsoft.
Dell has kicked two new tablets out to the world. Called the Dell Venue 7 & Venue 8, they’re Intel Atom based tablets with 7″ or 8″ screens that run Android. You read that correctly. They don’t run a Microsoft product. Not much is known in the way of specifics beyond what I’ve stated, but they’re due to ship in October. There’s also a Venue 8 Pro and Venue 11 Pro tablet that runs Windows 8.1 and Office Home & Student 2013 and are slated to be “coming soon.”
But that’s only half the story. The other half of the story is that Dell has killed off its Windows RT Tablets according to CNet:
Neil Hand, head of tablets at Dell, on Wednesday said his company won’t be releasing a new Windows RT device to follow up its product from a year ago.
“We are not planning to refesh our current line of RT products,” Hand said at a Dell tablet and PC launch event here. “We’re really focused on full Windows products…The full Windows experience provides great capability.”
That seems to be another nail in Windows RT’s coffin. That does lead me to a question. Is anyone other than Microsoft making a Windows RT device?
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