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  Apple Tablet: Microsoft Plans Counter Strike
Time: 01:41 EST/06:41 GMT | News Source: InformationWeek | Posted By: Kenneth van Surksum

Apple is widely expected to launch a tablet style computing device Wednesday with an eye to grabbing first mover's advantage in what's expected to be the PC industry's hot new category for 2010. But Apple may not have the field to itself for long, as rival Microsoft is planning to get in on the tablet action.

The difference is that Redmond will likely attack the market through hardware partners like Hewlett-Packard and Acer, rather than introduce a Microsoft-branded device. Indeed, CEO Steve Ballmer demonstrated a prototype HP tablet powered by Windows 7 earlier this month at the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas.

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#1 By 1896 (68.153.171.248) at Tuesday, January 26, 2010 03:47:34 AM
It seems that everybody is re-descovering the hot water.....
I have been using a Tablet, Convertible not Slate form, for years so nothing new.....

If the emphasys will be about Slate Tablet portraited as "media devices" these new devices will be resembling the "Mira" concept that MS introduced, without success, years ago.


#2 By 7754 (206.169.247.2) at Tuesday, January 26, 2010 02:38:21 PM
"...Microsoft is planning to get in on the tablet action."

What the....? Planning?

#3 By 13997 (71.193.149.254) at Wednesday, January 27, 2010 12:21:01 AM
Planning.... By having successful products on the market for nearly a decade?

There are more TabletPCs than all the Macs combined, yet Apple is still going to be the Tablet inventor? WTF?

#4 By 17855 (205.167.180.132) at Thursday, January 28, 2010 04:31:24 PM
Never underestimate the power of ignorance.



 

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