The
signs of doom are all aligned for Windows RT, which looks like
it could soon inhibit the same plane of oblivion currently occupied by
Microsoft Bob.
Ars Technica’s Peter Bright has written a thorough pre-obituary for the current incarnation of
Microsoft’s (
MSFT) first attempt at creating a tablet-centric operating system, which he calls “a lemon” that consumers are “avoiding… in droves.” Bright lists several reasons for Windows RT’s failure so far, but most of them boil down to the fact that the operating system as it’s currently built has no reason to exist.
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