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windows optimized for handhelds is already a work in progress, its just not remotely done

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Microsoft has never, since inception, been able to ship an embedded Windows that wasn’t a festering pile of dog shit.

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embedded windows in the japanese arcade scene has been working fine so far. for example, most of bandais arcade machines in the past like 7 yaers or so basically run embedded windows.

it was a benefit to non arcade users because a majority of games that were on those machines eventually got pc versions, or a new game on pc for the first time (e.g Tekken 7, Taiko No Tatsujin), where historically, theyve basically never been on PC officially.

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So let me get this straight – your defense of Microsoft, in this instance, is Japanese cabinet makers, making arcade machines, where the user doesn’t interact with the operating system in the slightest bit? A Japan that still faxes even in modernity? That’s your defense of MS? I bet they aren’t even using a special build of windows — just the desktop schlock with some shitty 3rd party app on top.

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Windows phone on Nokia Lumia was pretty good and well polished, and I’m a Linux fan.

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Windows optimized for anything seems to be pretty much impossible.

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