Opinion: What Would Steve Jobs Think About Windows 8?

Over the last week, I've found myself wondering what Steve Jobs would make of Windows 8 if he were alive today.

It's likely he would be entirely dismissive or unwilling to comment on the new OS at all. Even so, I'm betting he would consider the new Windows Phones and the mobile OS to be fairly elegant. And he'd consider Microsoft's Surface tablet to be nicely conceived if a little bit clunky and poorly executed at the apps and OS level.

The desktop version of the OS? He'd see it as an unmitigated disaster.

Jobs wasn't a perfect techno-seer, of course. In fact, over the last few months, a few of his theories on tablets have been disproved.

As an example, the market for 7-inch…
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