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		Spooky23 on Oct 1, 2013 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: French Gendarmerie: "Open source desktop lowers TC... The problem with the 40% savings figure is that tablet-based operating systems cost around $1k annually. And in the long run, your windows desktop will have an OS more like a tablet than a windows 7 desktop.

devx on Oct 1, 2013 [–]

Canonical has an OS for tablets that will be released soon, and they can support any tablet they want, if they order large amounts.

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