Quick Rant - I looked at videos from Microsoft + Asus and laugh...

Microsoft and ASUS show off all the stylish stylus action you can have on an Eee Slate (video)

Sometimes, i don't get Microsoft. How can one expect a touch interface yet, with all the heavy pc-type app to be running on it... the interaction is not touch friendly (finger based) and with a stylus, maybe... and then here you are advertising it trying to be all things to all men, pc-based app running on a tablet (i question the battery life)... keyboard provided, great... i get it - there's a market for this and true enough, i might see one in Singapore (ha ha) but with expectation from android / iPad setting the expectation bar for tablet sooo high... a generic os running on a tablet is NOT going to be a STOP GAP measure till Windows Next is out...

I know you know that msft, but doing this type of things ONLY TARNISH your brand among consumer. Cos nothing is going to work really well on it. You apps will be heavy, the interface is mouse / keyboard type... Yeah it's cool i can run photoshop on it but if the interface / experience of it on a stylus / touch is not going to work, i might as well bring a mouse / keyboard... wait a minute. It's a laptop.

A probably stop gap measure to me would be to release some tablet based service pack and sit in between the pc app and windows 7. the service pack would have things like redirecting the ui api into something for friendly (assuming the developer are following documented apis), allowing only # number of apps running concurrently in the windows, provide a touch app switching mechanism, provide transitional state / loading which the apps are processing… developer don’t need to change their app but your service pack should do some magic on it… That to me is the stop gap measure before Windows Next comes out. Till then… this type of video is only going to be more joke and bad reputation for Microsoft. Sorry, I ain’t buying despite how good Windows 7 is.