Microsoft Announces Surface Tablet
“Microsoft has unveiled Surface, a tablet computer to compete with Apple’s iPad."A slightly thicker version – still less than 14 millimeters thick and under 2 pounds – will work on Microsoft’s upcoming Windows 8 Pro operating system and cost as much as an Ultrabook, the company said. The pro version comes with a stylus that allows users to make handwritten notes on documents such as PDF files.Each tablet comes with a keyboard cover that is just 3 millimeters thick. The kickstand for both tablets was just 0.7 millimeters thick, less than the thickness of a credit card.Microsoft has been making software for tablets since 2002, when it shipped the Windows XP Tablet PC Edition. Many big PC makers produced tablets that ran the software, but they were never big sellers. The tablets were based on PC technology, and were heavy, with short battery lives.Microsoft didn’t say how long the Surface would last on battery power.Microsoft’s decision to make its own tablet is a departure from the software maker’s strategy the personal computer market. With PCs, Microsoft was content to leave the design and marketing of the hardware to other companies, such as Hewlett-Packard, Dell, Lenovo and Acer, that licensed the Windows operating system and other software applications”. – VosIzNeias.com
Steven Sinofsky, president of Microsoft’s Windows division, called the device a “tablet that’s a great PC – a PC that’s a great tablet.”
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