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What’s Micro soft really up to?

The arrival of a new version of Windows is always a significant event. Having started with Windows 2.x, I have lived through the ups and downs of 3.x, NT, 9x, 2000, XP, Vista, 7, 8, 10. And now 11.

Some have been good, some horrible (Windows ME, anyone?) and some outright failed: the Windows mobile platform, the attempts to do embedded and IoT Windows, the billion-dollar Windows RT mistake.

Still, you can’t say that Microsoft hasn’t tried. The lessons learnt from RT doubtless fed into the ARM versions of Windows that followed, and Microsoft keeps chipping away at that market with its Surface designs,

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