Microsoft Feels Tablet "Urgency"

Or at least its leader, Steve Ballmer, feels it. A CNNMoney.com story says that Mr. Ballmer has his company working hard with their hardware partners to develop Windows 7 based tablet computers to compete with Apple’s iPad.

Interestingly, Microsoft has had tablet versions of Windows XP dating back to at least 2001.

So it’s not like they haven’t had the market lead for a long, long time. They just haven’t been able to keep it.

In addition to that, I have a lot of misgivings about Windows 7 working well on a tablet computer, as well as the price of that operating system.

However, we shall see, Competition, particularly in tech, is a great thing.

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