Ballmer Says Microsoft Is 'Hardcore' About Tablets

Posted by Soulskill on Monday July 12, 2010 @07:57AM from the leading-from-the-back dept.

gbll writes with news that Microsoft is gearing up to aggressively pursue the tablet PC market, according to CEO Steve Ballmer. Microsoft is working with a variety of hardware companies including Asus, Dell, Samsung, Toshiba and Sony, to release Windows 7 slates later this year. "These slates will be available at a variety of price points and in a variety of form factors — with keyboards, touch only, dockable, able to handle digital ink, etc. Since Ballmer showed off a prototype of a Windows 7 slate from Hewlett-Packard at the Consumer Electronics Show in January, the company has said next-to-nothing about how it planned to address the slate form-factor space. ... Ballmer never mentioned the iPad or the coming Chrome OS-based slates by name during his remarks. Microsoft’s pitch will be that these slates will be sanctioned by corporate IT departments, enabling customers to use them at work and at home."

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Re:Still want Courier by Anonymous Coward · 2010-07-12 08:10 · Score: -1, Offtopic

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Re:Sure by e2d2 · 2010-07-12 08:11 · Score: -1, Offtopic

LOL at the troll mod. Who am I trolling exactly?
Take your emotion chip out "Data", the humor module is malfunctioning.
Re:Sure by e2d2 · 2010-07-12 08:41 · Score: -1, Offtopic

Eventually you'll run out of points asshole. That's when I'll post my EPIC TRILOGY of hate.
Re:Sure by f3rret · 2010-07-12 09:03 · Score: 0, Offtopic

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