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Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer: Forget the iPad, Surface Is the Tablet People Want

Posted by samzenpus on from the flame-on dept.

zacharye writes "Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer undoubtedly knows that Apple has sold more than 100 million iPad tablets at this point, but according to the outspoken executive, that's not the tablet people really want. While speaking with CNBC, Ballmer said no company has built a tablet he believes customers want. 'You can go through the products from all those guys and none of them has a product that you can really use. Not Apple. Not Google. Not Amazon. Nobody has a product that lets you work and play that can be your tablet and your PC. Not at any price point,' he says."

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  1. Ballmer said that? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    Get out!

  2. Re:First impressions on Surface by Literaphile · · Score: 5, Funny

    Wow - that's probably the clearest example of a shill comment that I've ever seen.

  3. Re:First impressions on Surface by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    DogKia,

    Your contract clearly states that your posts must be illustrated with at least 3 examples, and "appeal to the user base of the site". You did give three examples, but only two are related to the topics that Slashdot users would care about (Facebook and Twitter are commonly disparaged on this site). The "first post" bonus only applies if the main criteria are met.

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  4. Force Fail? by hutsell · · Score: 4, Funny

    Sounds as if he was trying to the use the Force, as in: Stormtrooper, "These aren't the Droids you're looking for."

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  5. Hm ... by garry_g · · Score: 3, Funny

    May I assume he thought the same of the Zune? or Windows Mobile/CE?

  6. Re:Track Record by Trashcan+Romeo · · Score: 5, Funny

    How does this even warrant a post? "CEO Tells Ludicrous Falsehood To Promote His Product" isn't exactly a rare occurrence.

  7. Best thing about Surface. by Kaenneth · · Score: 5, Funny

    I got a Surface RT on launch day, and was sitting at the bus stop playing with it, and some guy ran past and grabbed it.

    I was about to give chase, but as he was running he looked at it, stopped, turned around, and gave it back saying "Sorry man, I'm so sorry for you man."

    It's basically theft-proof.

  8. surface is brilliant by Cyko_01 · · Score: 4, Funny

    Are you kidding me?! Surface is revolutionary! Its like a laptop, but the screen is where the keyboard goes and vice verse, and you use it the other way around! Then instead of a touchpad you just smear your fingers all over the screen and, if you are lucky, it doesn't tip over - Brilliant! Its like an ipad but without all the apps and fanboism, no wait... Its like a tablet for people that don't like tablets, wait...nobody likes tablets.

  9. Alternate Reality by runeghost · · Score: 5, Funny

    Ballmer continued to speak, explaining how he felt almost bad for Apple's losses after the Zune drove the iPod from the portable music player market. He then announced that Windows Vista had reached a new record of 92% market share, before taking a call on his Windows Phone and zipping off on his Segway.

  10. Re:Download an app???? NO!!!! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

    I want to go to your college! Please tell me where I can get a degree that requires doing absolutely no real work.

  11. Re:First impressions on Surface by Crudely_Indecent · · Score: 3, Funny

    Of course he was right. He spoke to those people personally. Both of them want a Surface tablet.

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