A British tank near Basra in 2003. The Tankchair doesn’t have a gun. Photograph: Dan Chung for the Guardian
For a while there it looked like Microsoft would either purchased Barnes & Noble's struggling Nook e-book reader business or partner with the firm to create Windows-based Nooks. But today, Barnes & Noble upended those possibilities in announcing a partnership with Samsung in which the consumer electronics giant will make future Nook tablets.
Some may see this as a blow to Microsoft and/or Windows. But I see this as bullet dodged: Let's face it, the last thing Microsoft needed was another money-losing hardware product line.
Certainly, for Barnes & Noble, this is a nice out, too, since it really couldn't afford to invest in the hardware lineup.
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