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Ballmer reveals some 'slate' PCs, but does not thrill

TUAW Jan 07 10

Filed under: Hardware, Multimedia, Portables, Rumors, Odds and ends

There was quite a bit of anticipation that Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer would upstage Apple with an exciting new tablet design at his CES keynote last night, but it pretty much turned out to be a dud. After more than an hour of bobbing and weaving through several topics, and quickly skipping over Windows Mobile, Ballmer showed a prototype tablet from Hewlett-Packard and two other suppliers. They were running Windows 7 and looked a lot like other touchscreen prototypes we've seen, but none of them seemed to do anything special. Full story...

Tagged: anticipation, apple tablet, ceo steve ballmer, curve, dud, iphone, microsoft ceo, Mobile,

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