>Talk about raining on the parade...
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>OK, yeah so let's say you get an old Foxpro Desktop app to respond to touch on one of these new Microsoft brand tablets. It's working on Microsoft hardware and nothing else. Other than the XBOX, Microsoft has an abysmal record in hardware, especially for business... (my guess is that most people will continue to buy iPad and iPhone in droves with Android a close second since they can easily drive the price down).
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>I choose keeping my money and time investment in VFP code and just offering it up on the web to popular and free client software like jQuery Mobile that works on everything.. Call me crazy...

I expect MS is pushing the tablet as a way to get their OS established in the mobile market, same as Google was pushing hardware to help get Android established. It worked for Google and you don't hear much about their hardware anymore. Probably pretty much the same scenario with MS and I wish them well.

BTW, while discounting MS don't forget their keyboards, mice, etc. that are great and widely accepted. The tone of your response seems to be counting MS out and that I believe is best described as Mark Twain once said: "The reports of my death have been greatly exaggerated."