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Microsoft To Launch 'iPad Killer' Tablets At CES
Information Week ^ | 2010-12-14 | Paul McDougall

Posted on 12/14/2010 1:54:53 PM PST by dayglored

Report says Redmond will finally get around to shipping devices that can compete with Apple's slate and Android-based devices.

Microsoft plans to introduce a range of new tablets powered by its Windows 7 operating system at January's Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas, according to a published report.

The software maker, which is under pressure to produce a slate that can go head-to-head with Apple's iPad and devices powered by Google's Android OS, will unveil slates manufactured by OEM partners Dell and Samsung, according The New York Times.

The Times, citing unnamed sources, said the Samsung devices would be "similar in size and shape" to the iPad, but not as thin and equipped with a slide-out keyboard. The newspaper did not offer details on the Dell device.

Microsoft's credibility in the tablet market has come into question, as the company has failed to deliver on previous promises to deliver a full range of slates. CEO Steve Ballmer took the stage at CES 2010 almost a year ago to demonstrate a Windows-powered HP slate.

"We're talking about something that's almost as portable as a phone and that's as powerful as a PC running Windows 7," said Ballmer. But the device failed to materialize in stores.

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61 posted on 12/14/2010 5:03:07 PM PST by ShadowAce (Linux -- The Ultimate Windows Service Pack)
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To: st.eqed

FYI for those who want a keyboard: Brookstone [I think] has a black iPad case [which looks a lot like Apple’s] that has a built in Bluetooth keyboard.

They were distributed at our firm for all the marketing people when they got their iPads.


62 posted on 12/14/2010 5:03:21 PM PST by BunnySlippers (I love BULL MARKETS . . .)
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To: ShadowAce

Hi ShadowAce, thanks for the ping!


63 posted on 12/14/2010 5:07:32 PM PST by dayglored (Listen, strange women lying in ponds distributing swords is no basis for a system of government!)
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To: dayglored

Microsoft hardware: Making Microsoft software look good for three decades!


64 posted on 12/14/2010 5:26:10 PM PST by Still Thinking (Freedom is NOT a loophole!)
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To: SeeSac
Apple's sales are up 2% year over year (3rd quarter). And that is with total market sales increasing. They may be peaking.

They are???? WHERE DID YOU GET THAT????

I don't know where you get your figures, but the audited results for the 3rd calendar quarter (Apple's 4th fiscal quarter) show that Mac sales were up 27% year over year not your false 2%.

Over all Apple sales were up 66% year over year for the third calendar quarter of 2010 $20.34 Billion this year's quarter compared to $12.21 Billion last year ... I don't think that is peaking.

Perhaps you were thinking of Apple Corps, the Beatles' old company?

65 posted on 12/14/2010 6:40:47 PM PST by Swordmaker (This tag line is a Microsoft product "insult" free zone.)
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To: Above My Pay Grade
I’m not a big fan of pads/slates/tabs, and am not impressed by the Windows Phone rollout, but the slideout keyboard sounds like a huge improvement over the iPad.

Why? It't then a netbook with a flat screen layout... very unusable to my way of thinking. Hard to see, hard to use. The user would have to find a flat surface to lay it on and then hunch over it to see and type on it. Uh uh. Not for me.

Without the keyboard, the iPad or any other slate will mainly be a cool toy, for viewing content.

You obviously are speaking as someone who simply has not used an iPad... I have been using one for six months. I do not find what you claim is a negative to be one.

66 posted on 12/14/2010 6:46:30 PM PST by Swordmaker (This tag line is a Microsoft product "insult" free zone.)
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To: Swordmaker; SeeSac
> They are???? WHERE DID YOU GET THAT????

I warned him about that brown acid, but did he listen?

> Perhaps you were thinking of Apple Corps, the Beatles' old company?

>> They may be peaking.

Let me take you down, 'cause I'm going to... Strawberry Fields... Nothing is real... And nothing to get hung about...

67 posted on 12/14/2010 6:49:04 PM PST by dayglored (Listen, strange women lying in ponds distributing swords is no basis for a system of government!)
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To: dayglored
Yep. The best release of Windows yet.

Not really setting the bar very high are we? :-)

68 posted on 12/14/2010 7:51:46 PM PST by zeugma (Ad Majorem Dei Gloriam)
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To: dayglored
Kind of OT, but check this out:

http://www.infowars.com/iphone-snitch-network-launched/

69 posted on 12/14/2010 7:52:04 PM PST by tacticalogic
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To: dayglored
Kind of OT, but check this out:

http://www.infowars.com/iphone-snitch-network-launched/

70 posted on 12/14/2010 7:52:12 PM PST by tacticalogic
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To: zeugma
> Not really setting the bar very high are we? :-)

Well, [cough] you do have me there. Here's what I meant: Win7 is the first release of Windows that I would put in the same class as any of the OS-X releases in terms of stability and security. Not quite equal yet, but catching up.

71 posted on 12/14/2010 11:22:55 PM PST by dayglored (Listen, strange women lying in ponds distributing swords is no basis for a system of government!)
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To: tacticalogic
Geez.

I'm reminded of Orwell's vision of citizens constantly spying on each other, of children turning in their parents for saying things against Big Brother...

72 posted on 12/14/2010 11:25:45 PM PST by dayglored (Listen, strange women lying in ponds distributing swords is no basis for a system of government!)
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To: dayglored
Can't Wait already


73 posted on 12/14/2010 11:53:21 PM PST by Fred (Suspend All Immigration Until Unemployment is Reduced to 5%)
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To: SeeSac
Apple's sales are up 2% year over year (3rd quarter). And that is with total market sales increasing. They may be peaking.

Third quarter results: Revenue up 61%; Net profit up 77%; Mac unit sales up 33%; iPhone unit sales up 61%. But iPod sales dropped 8%, so you're right, Apple is clearly doomed.

Apple's fiscal year begins in September. Assuming you meant the 3rd calendar quarter, Apple's 4th, the numbers are: Revenue up 66%; profit up 83%; Mac unit sales up 27%; iPhone unit sales up 91%.

74 posted on 12/15/2010 12:25:44 AM PST by ReignOfError
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To: dayglored

Windows XP Tablet Edition launched in 2002. They’ve been trying to sell tablets for eight years. I wonder what changed?

This is the purest example yet of Microsoft needing Apple to show them how it’s done.


75 posted on 12/15/2010 12:34:11 AM PST by ReignOfError
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To: dayglored

I prefer to think of it as a Continental Siege Unit, crushing all enemies under its treads. :D


76 posted on 12/15/2010 2:20:50 AM PST by Spktyr (Overwhelmingly superior firepower and the willingness to use it is the only proven peace solution.)
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To: dayglored

You would also have to update it daily with news of new viruses and hotfixes. :P


77 posted on 12/15/2010 2:24:03 AM PST by Spktyr (Overwhelmingly superior firepower and the willingness to use it is the only proven peace solution.)
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To: Swordmaker

And if someone really wants that, they make folio cases for iPads that integrate a keyboard.


78 posted on 12/15/2010 2:25:50 AM PST by Spktyr (Overwhelmingly superior firepower and the willingness to use it is the only proven peace solution.)
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To: dayglored

I remember reading about Jobs having a meeting with Obama a few weeks ago. I’d bet that’s what it was about.


79 posted on 12/15/2010 3:10:03 AM PST by tacticalogic
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To: BunnySlippers
Oh yeah...Here 'tis
80 posted on 12/15/2010 4:03:39 AM PST by harpu ( "...it's better to be hated for who you are than loved for someone you're not!")
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