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Richard Plinston

Re: compatible Android tablets

> Actually, if there's something MS does very well is compatibility - especially at the binary level.

Given that the topic is mobile devices then Microsoft has been very poor at compatibility. Windows Mobile 6.x apps were completely killed by Windows Phone 7, which in turn was dead-ended by WP8. Not just binary incompatibility but the complete tool chain.

> While in other OSes unless you can - if you can without extensive changes - recompile your apps you have very little chance to run whatever was written or compiled just a few years ago.

That is just nonsense dogma. I have programs written 20 years ago that still run.

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