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Five reasons Microsoft could win the tablet war

Windows 8 could put the IT giant back on top

Microsoft has let it be known that the next version of Windows will run on ARM architecture, and it has demonstrated early builds of Windows 8 (or whatever Microsoft ultimately calls the next OS) on a tablet at both CES 2011 and MIX '11. While Microsoft did a quick 180 on comments from Steve Ballmer confirming a 2012 launch of Windows 8, we know it's coming sometime, and when it does it quickly dominate the tablet market.

Why? Well, here are five reasons that Microsoft could come from behind and ultimately win the tablet war.

1. Uniform experience: Microsoft Windows enjoys a dominant market share of nearly 90 percent for desktop operating systems. While the tablet is a different

How the Internet Got Busy When Osama Died

Osama bin Laden died and actually, whether tastefully or not, he took over the internet with his death. For a few days at least, Facebook, Twitter, Reddit, to some degree Google and even Foursquare went nuts, with users 'celebrating' his death. The fan following to these 'celebrations' is high enough to keep them going. So here are five Osama death tributes that have quite the following and, to some degree, have something to say about how we as a race interact between news events and our own personal lives, of which, social networking is a part.

The man whose death took over the internet

Twitter

For starters, bin Laden's got his own Twitter parody account. There are actually a few that aren't really active but one is still going at it.  It's not very fancy named, just @OsamaBinladen. As expected, maybe 0.03% of the tweets