Tuesday, June 15, 2010
[Google Fast Flip] Tablets 2.0: Microsoft, HP probably building less powerful products
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Tablets 2.0: Microsoft, HP probably building less powerful products
Last Friday, Apple sold its one-millionth iPad. At the same time, Microsoft and HP — two much larger tech companies — both canceled their existing tablet computer projects. Microsoft insiders tipped off Gizmodo. An unnamed but trusted source leaked HP's plan to TechCrunch. Are Microsoft and HP abandoning the tablet market to Apple? Of course not. What they're giving up is the idea that a tablet computer has to contain the full power of a desktop or laptop computer in a much smaller, lighter device. Parse TechCrunch's headline carefully: "Hewlett-Packard To Kill Windows 7 Tablet Project." Is it the tablet they're killing? No, it's Windows 7. Both Microsoft and HP have spent years trying to build a tablet that would enable its user to run a hospital ward, publish a personal journal, or at the very least stay on top of an overbooked schedule of meetings, travel, and deadlines. Watch Microsoft's concept video for Courier. Look how productive it will make you! Meh. After a few weeks of lying on the VentureBeat writers' couch with an iPad, it's become obvious Apple's tablet was built primarily for media and information consumption, not for the creation of new content or the m...
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More on tablet War
Tablets 2.0: Microsoft, HP probably building less powerful products
Last Friday, Apple sold its one-millionth iPad. At the same time, Microsoft and HP — two much larger tech companies — both canceled their existing tablet computer projects. Microsoft insiders tipped off Gizmodo. An unnamed but trusted source leaked HP's plan to TechCrunch. Are Microsoft and HP abandoning the tablet market to Apple? Of course not. What they're giving up is the idea that a tablet computer has to contain the full power of a desktop or laptop computer in a much smaller, lighter device. Parse TechCrunch's headline carefully: "Hewlett-Packard To Kill Windows 7 Tablet Project." Is it the tablet they're killing? No, it's Windows 7. Both Microsoft and HP have spent years trying to build a tablet that would enable its user to run a hospital ward, publish a personal journal, or at the very least stay on top of an overbooked schedule of meetings, travel, and deadlines. Watch Microsoft's concept video for Courier. Look how productive it will make you! Meh. After a few weeks of lying on the VentureBeat writers' couch with an iPad, it's become obvious Apple's tablet was built primarily for media and information consumption, not for the creation of new content or the m...
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