mknopp said:
>By the time MS gets around to releasing a tablet both Google and HP will have
>released a wide range of tablets running Android and WebOS respectively.
>Thus Microsoft will be coming in as the fourth tablet OS provider. And will be
>coming in behind some serious competition at that.
?!?
There've been Tablet computers running Microsoft Windows since 1991:
http://www.nytimes.com/1991/06/30/bu...er-can-do.html
One can purchase a Tablet PC running Windows 7 now:
http://www.motioncomputing.com/produ...let_pc_J35.asp
But Apple still isn't making a replacement for my Newton MessagePad, and HP has yet to replace the Compaq TC 1000/1100/1200 line.
Things which a Tablet from Microsoft offers which the iPad and WebOS don't:
- handwriting recognition built-in
- active stylus w/ hover and right-click
- OneNote
- the ability to use _any_ application which one can get for one's desktop (you're not likely to see a font editor or FrameMaker equivalent for the iPad)
William