Ballmer Says Microsoft Is 'Hardcore' About Tablets

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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I don't find holding a book very comfortable. And saying "books in our hands for hundreds of years" is just plain wrong AND not to mention completely meaningless.

I know you are trolling, but I have a response: I read a lot. In fact, I have very little reading downtime throughout the day. Whether it be email, IM, magazine, SMS, and you know... books.

I can easily say that I find reading a book the most comfortable form to read from. There really is no beating ambient light for comfortable reading. Back-light and e-ink technology have a lot of advancements to make before they compare to simple paper and ink (purely from a reading comfort point of view).

saying "books in our hands for hundreds of years" is just plain wrong AND not to mention completely meaningless

Citation needed. Clarification needed. Is English plain wrong AND completely meaningless?

I would certainly find an instantaneous thought translator/communicator more useful and efficient, but we puny humans currently lack such fanciful technology. As such, I must make do with my slow speed of spoken or written communication to share ideas with my fellow man.