[vip_students] Microsoft to launch 'iPad killers'

From: "Paul Traynor (NCBI)" <paul.traynor@xxxxxxx>
To: <vip_students@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Tue, 13 Jul 2010 14:09:41 +0100
 Thanks Flor for passing this item along.

Paul.


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Subject: Microsoft to launch 'iPad killers'

Thanks to Tony Scanlon for this one which I'm forwarding, probably of
interest to several vicsireland list members.
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From: "Scanlon, Tony" <tony.scanlon@xxxxxx>
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Sent: Tuesday, July 13, 2010 10:48 AM
Subject: [vibistro] Microsoft to launch 'iPad killers'


Microsoft to launch 'iPad killers'
Microsoft will launch Windows-based tablet computers later this year,
says Steve Ballmer

By Claudine Beaumont, Technology Editor
Published: 4:56PM BST 12 Jul 2010

Steve Ballmer, Microsoft's chief executive, told delegates at the
company's annual worldwide partner conference that they would find the
range of devices "quite impressive".

Five 'iPad killers' "This year one of the most important things that we
will do in the smart device category is really push forward with Windows
7-based slates and Windows 7 phones," he said.

"Over the course of the next several months you will see a range of
Windows 7-based slates that I think you'll find quite impressive. This
is a terribly important area for us. We are hard-core about this."

Asus, Dell, Samsung, Toshiba and Sony are among the consumer electronics
companies that will be making Windows-based slates, he confirmed.

"They'll come with keyboards, they'll come without keyboards, they'll be
dockable, there'll be many form factors, many price points, many sizes,"
said Ballmer.

"But they will all run Windows 7. They will run Windows 7 applications.
They will run Office."

Microsoft is keen not lose out to Apple in the portable computing
market. Ballmer acknowledged that Microsoft had already failed to keep
pace with the likes of Apple and Google in the mobile phone space, and
that its Windows Mobile operating system had "missed a generation" in
terms of its features and functionality.

Ballmer said that would be rectified with the launch of the first
Windows Phone 7 handsets later this year.

"I think we will give you a set of Windows-based devices people will be
proud to carry," he told delegates.

Apple has sold more than three million iPads since the device went on
sale in April, prompting competitors to launch their own tablet-style
computers. Dell launched the Streak, a tablet running Google's Android
operating system, and others are also experimenting with the "slate"
form factor.


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