Indy,

You're on.

While you are certainly correct that Google - and don't forget Apple - are making serious headway into the Tablet market, it's important to remember that they are not regulated like MS is by the government. And now that they are expanding, their time is coming. The govn't is already investigating iTunes for possible anti-trust violations.

Furthermore, right now Apple and Google are promoting their tablets to the young crowd, not to businesses. In order to promote to business, Google and Apple are going to have to offer the same assurances of warranty, support, backwards compatiblity, and so forth that MS does now. I must say, I don't think Google or Apple are counting on the idea that a version of their respective operating systems must be supported for 10 nice long years or that older applications must run on even newer versions of their tablets.

FYI - you can always run XP in XP Mode on Windows 7. smile

JamesNT

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