Thursday, May 27, 2010

Does Microsoft need a Windows 7 slate?

Does Microsoft need a Windows 7 slate? (http://news.cnet.com/8301-13860_3-20006146-56.html) by Ina Fried - cnet news (http://www.cnet.com/profile/Ina+Fried/) Microsoft needs an answer to Apple's iPad (http://www.cnet.com/apple-ipad/) and that should be some sort of Windows-based consumer tablet. At least that is the position that analysis firm Forrester takes in a new report, which argue that tablets are "the next important computing form." "To keep its products front and center, Microsoft needs a partner to produce a successful Windows tablet that competes with the Apple iPad (http://www.cnet.com/apple-ipad/)," analysts JP Gownder and Sarah Rotman Epps said in a report released on Thursday. " At stake is nothing less than the future of the operating system."

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