Steve Ballmer said yesterday that consumers will see Microsoft slate “this Christmas.” Blink blink! He didn’t say they’d be available then, just that we’d “see” them, according to Reuters.
Tablets are obviously white hot right now: iPads remain the object of technolust for many, and Android-powered tablets have been flooding the marketplace. Ballmer’s been saying that a Windows 7 tablet was nigh for months, and still nada. At this point, it’s going to have to be pretty damn cool slate to elbow its way in. I so hope it’s called the Windows Window.
As of now, the iPad has become the fasted-adopted non-phone gadget ever. Can a Windows tablet compete, PopWatchers? Or are iPads becoming the standard tablet?
It should be called “The Window”. People would get the connection.
Still too late, though…
Good riddance. Don’t let the door hit you on the way out.
Don’t get this at all. A massively priced giant smart phone is the hottest gadget around?
Like most, non mac or mac-book, related products it’s a very pretty piece of 2nd rate kit that is slower, less usefull and far less memory capable than even a bog standard netbook.
But hey, it’s sooooo pretty.
I bet you were a big Zune fan. They still make those, right?
No I wasn’t and I doubt it.
they still make the zune. Zune HD is selling fairly welle nough there is rumore of Zune HD2. Not to mention the entire Windows Phone 7 will have the zune ecosystem incorporated and this november Xbox live will be updated to have Zune Music and an ehanced zune media apps included.
Far from dead.
And yes, i own a zune hd. zunepass ftw!
I’LL BET YOU DON’T GET A LOT OF THINGS THOUGH….
Like everyone who ever has or ever will live there are a fair number of things I don’t get. Most of them I couldn’t care less about like manufactured pop; but then there’s the “war on drugs” that keeps using the same methods year after year, all around the world, despite proof all over history and scrawled in blood & pain around the world that it does nothing except make thugs rich and powerful and turn the police into little more than better paid security guards; why people think Paris is romantic (never having been there perhaps); that millions, yes millions of people not only enjoyed Clash of The Titans 2010, but enjoyed it so much that they felt the need to buy it?!? That Clash & the somehow even worse Last Airbender managed to clear over $300m worldwide (I know they were based on well known and popular stories but they each assassinated their source material, cloned them and killed them again), but Scott Pilgrim, among others, suffered (admittedly foreseeable), anonymity. That despite outstanding word of mouth: and yes why people would pay £429 and more for an ipad. It’s pretty, it has some cool features and no doubt it’s a great piece of tech but for what it does, in comparison to comparable and much cheaper tech, it is massively overpriced.
Can you say “chip on your shoulder?”
Is it really “the fasted-adopted non-phone gadget ever”?
I mean I was impressed when the headline said the most quickly adopted gadget ever, but the “fasted” that’s Amazing!
If the Windows version comes out with a USB port and a funtional version of Office it’ll sell to the business crowd. It won’t be as ‘cool’ as the iPad, but increased funtion would be a huge asset.
It should be called the Microsoft Window, and it’s specs versus price point will be crucial in determining its fortune.