Microsoft needs to gain market share in the virtualize operating system space.

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For as long as I can remember, storage advertised on a laptop-styled device has always included the space used by the operating system.

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The reception to Windows 8 has been nothing short of dismal, even though Microsoft owns 90% market share in the PC operating system space.

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From a value perspective, Google is very appealing right now given its success in monetizing search and YouTube, as well as its fast-growing market share in the smart phone space with its Android operating system.

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The larger 128GB version offers a bit more space at 83GB, but is still losing a massive 45GB of space to the full Windows 8 operating system and various included applications.

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That is the same price as an iPad featuring half the amount of storage, albeit with less space taken up by Apple's operating system.

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For one thing, Microsoft beat up on Palm the same way it took out many of its competitors in the desktop OS space: by putting pressure on hardware vendors to use its operating system, and offering it at a price they couldn't refuse.

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In his review of the Nexus 7, SKRBBLR editor, Kane Fulton, said that after the installation of the operating system, the 8GB Nexus is left with only 6GB of storage space.

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Apple found the sweet spot in terms of matching up the Operating System and the Hardware, and then let people go and play in the space.

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