Do you even know what imminent means? You probably do.
The blogosphere (I was hip in 2008) claims that Windows and Barnes & Noble are all smitten with each other these days. Since Amazon's Kindle is a direct competitor to the Nook, B&N doesn't want to use Android as their base OS. Instead they might take Windows 8 and then go ahead and ruin that UX with their own custom crap over it.
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If they do manage to customize Win8 then another downside surfaces: Windows licensing fees are much more expensive. Anrdoid is open source, it is technically free. With all the ridiculous patent lawsuits going around it doesn't always end up free, but at least it starts out at zero dollars.
In an Apple-free world (one can only dream), Barnes & Noble would grab the open source file of Android, probably Android 2.3 gingerbread again because they are run by people who hate you, and pay nothing. If they wanted to make their tablet based off Windows software they would pay somewhere between $60 and $100 per device.
Using Windows for a crappy tablet you are going to customize anyways makes no sense. Of course, neither does buying a Nook or a Kindle Fire over a Nexus 7 either.
Final note: this is a nice Windows 8 tablet.
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