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Windows 8 tablets have yet to reach the market, and it will still take a while before they do, however, Windows 7 slates are already here.
And Microsoft is ready to lend a helping hand to those users that want some extra guidance to make the best out of their devices.
For them, “Windows 7 on a Slate De... |
5 October 2011
07:07 GMT |
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Some may have dismissed the idea of a super-cheap tablet as a good but impossible dream, but the Indian government begs to differ, as it has gone through with the plans to launch a $35 (25.69 Euro) tablet.
Going by what the slate industry looks like at the moment, tablets don't exactly make the top of the li... |
29 September 2011
05:30 GMT |
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Microsoft will reportedly hand out free Windows 8 tablets / slates to BUILD participants, an event focused on the next major iteration of the Windows client. The info comes from one of the people attending the Microsoft Tech Ed New Zealand show, Alan Burchill, a Microsoft Most Valuable Professional, who posted pictu... |
26 August 2011
03:28 GMT |
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Microsoft let the Tablet PC market slip through its fingers years before Apple’s iPad hit store shelves.
And now, years after the iPad was introduced, the Redmond company and its OEM partners have yet to introduce a valid Windows-based rival, despite the fact that some Windows 7 slates are indeed available... |
21 July 2011
03:12 GMT |
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Microsoft doesn’t see a real distinction between Windows 8 Tablet PCs / slates and Windows 8 PCs, essentially between next generation and more traditional form factors. This perspective was stressed yet again at the company’s Worldwide Partner Conference 2011, by Andrew Lees, President, Windows Phone Div... |
14 July 2011
13:01 GMT |
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Amazon seems to be playing its role as indirect provider of information on upcoming devices, but it looks like the online store has now become the subject of a report itself, regarding tablet plans.Those that would think Amazon doesn't really have plans to make a name on the IT market beyond the Kindle e-reader... |
22 June 2011
03:44 GMT |
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It appears that the recently revealed HP TouchPad tablet will be just one of multiple slates that the company has planned for the future, at least according to how HP applied for trademark protection of six different brandings.It seems like only yesterday HP came forth and formally announced the TouchPad Android tab... |
15 June 2011
05:53 GMT |
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Even with the January 2011 demo of Windows 8, Microsoft has made it clear that it intends for the Office productivity suite to work on next generation form factors on top of Windows7’s successor, including System on a Chip devices, such as those powered by ARM architectures. The first official preview of Windo... |
13 June 2011
09:29 GMT |
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Microsoft Chief Executive Officer Steve Ballmer dropped the Windows 8 bomb at the Microsoft Developer Forum, Tokyo, Japan on May 23, 2011. Why all the fuss? Well, mainly because of the manner in which the Redmond company has dealt with details of Windows vNext. And the software giant has been adamant on calling the... |
24 May 2011
03:30 GMT |
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Not counting the Apple iPad, tablets may not be selling that well at the moment, but it is generally accepted that this won't last long, although slates with PC-like feature sets are said to not have a very high marketing potential.At the present time, the word tablet is used to describe what some see as two di... |
20 May 2011
04:31 GMT |
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Microsoft is now offering details on the upcoming Springboard Series Tour scheduled to start this May, living up to the promise it made in March of this year. Essentially, the Redmond company published the tour stops, namely the six cities that will be visited ahead of Atlanta for TechEd US. According to the softwar... |
8 April 2011
07:10 GMT |
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If anyone were to say that Apple is not really giving other tablet makers an easy time, they would be right, as it seems Android 3.0 slates, or some of them, are far from selling as well as their makers might like.Some time ago, it became apparent that, indirectly, Apple was leaving the CEOs of other companies witho... |
7 April 2011
08:42 GMT |
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Tablets have definitely become one of the major concerns of analysts and it looks like any possible occurrence on their segment gets attention, such as the likelihood of them using more memory.Tablets PCs have already been said to have begun eroding the market share of netbooks and even notebooks, even despite their... |
31 March 2011
05:36 GMT |
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There are quite a number of tablets on the market or on the way, and it seems that a particular model from ASUS has finally gotten an actual shipment date after having already been set up for pre-order.One could safely say that, on the new tablet market, Android and ARM have, so far, held the field in a tight grip.T... |
22 March 2011
04:05 GMT |
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The rise of the tablet market has begun to raise questions as to what this means for the netbook segment, and while some might think that auxiliary keyboards will favor the former of these two industry fields, some reports, or one of them at least, do not seem to share this view.As consumers no doubt know, quite a f... |
10 March 2011
05:57 GMT |
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Yet another tablet has been spotted on the web, only this once it is not another Tegra 2 device, but a product which uses a less mighty processor and overall specs in return for a lower price point. During the 2011 editions of the MWC (mobile World Congress) and CeBIT trade show, quite a few tablets were formally un... |
7 March 2011
03:48 GMT |
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CeBIT wasn't all that packed with announcements, since some top-tier IT players had little or nothing to show off, and whether or not IFA ends up in the same boat, Archos is still said to be getting ready for a special showing during that particular event. The past week doesn't seem to have been that much ... |
5 March 2011
06:24 GMT |
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It would appear that market analysts are still very much at work, with iSuppli having published an announcement that states what it expects from the HDD industry for the first quarter of 2011.It appears that, as IT players may or may not have feared, tablets are already having a significant enough effect on the note... |
3 March 2011
06:53 GMT |
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Microsoft already showcased Windows 8 at the 2011 International Consumer Electronics Show (CES 2011) in January, but the company is reportedly getting ready to share additional information on the next generation of the Windows client later this year.At CES 2011, the demo presented by Steven Sinofsky, President, Wind... |
1 March 2011
14:01 GMT |
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As end-users know, quite a few tablets have been revealed over the past months, especially during MWC 2011, but more are coming, obviously, and BenQ seems poised to bring out one or more of its own.The thing with tablets is that they turned out to be one of the most surprising products of the past few years, from a ... |
22 February 2011
09:33 GMT |
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What are the chances that Windows 8 will be available to consumers in approximately a year, no later than the first quarter of 2012?This is what fresh leaked information from one of Microsoft’s top OEM partners, Dell seems to suggest. According to leaks provided by Android Central, Dell is planning to release... |
17 February 2011
03:11 GMT |
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HP's big launch event for the mobile world happened last night, and without a doubt, one of the main attractions was the official unveiling of HP's first-ever webOS slate (or Internet tablet), namely the HP TouchPad, whose overall features and specs make it a very serious contender for the Apple iPad (actua... |
10 February 2011
01:33 GMT |
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With the number of Windows Tablet PCs available on the market bound to increase throughout 2011 and beyond, users will certainly come across scenarios that they didn’t have to deal with on laptops, netbooks or desktop PCs. Running the Office productivity suite on a Windows 7 slate is just such an example, and ... |
9 February 2011
11:51 GMT |
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Just as the iPhone is the device to beat for Windows Phone 7 smartphones, Windows 8 Tablet PCs or slates will be built as the nemesis for Apple iPad. I just don’t see Windows 7 Tablet PCs on the market today making a dent in iPad’s domination. Sure, I love the idea of devices such as Windows 7 ASUS EP121... |
31 January 2011
11:01 GMT |
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ViewSonic, like so many other companies, has joined the tablet market, and it seems that it is actually doing well in terms of shipments, provided a certain report is to be believed of course.Tablet PCs may have taken off only last year, but they have already begun to visibly affect the netbook market.This happened ... |
31 January 2011
04:53 GMT |
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It appears that AOC is not even close to finishing with the tablet market, as a certain device that was revealed at CES has now been revealed to be on track for CeBIT as well.Many tablets have been revealed so far, but they can't really be said to be all that affordable, at least not compared to netbooks.Of cou... |
26 January 2011
11:22 GMT |
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Microsoft and its OEM partners are yet to provide customers with the Windows 7 Slates to rival Apple’s iPad, although promises from the company indicated that such Tablet PCs were made before the end of 2010. But iPad rival devices powered by Windows 7 are indeed closer than ever, with such examples as the ASU... |
25 January 2011
12:05 GMT |
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Users of touch-enabled computers running Windows 7 are bound to notice that one element of the operating system’s functionality is missing from their machines. Microsoft confirmed that computers for which touch screens are used as the main interaction model, such as Tablet PCs or slates, do not feature su... |
24 January 2011
02:52 GMT |
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Not often does it happen that a product's delivery is delayed because it gets too many orders, but this is, apparently, what has happened to a certain Windows 7 tablet that HP revealed months ago.Even though Android has become the more popular OS when it comes to tablets, Windows 7 models haven't exactly g... |
19 January 2011
10:37 GMT |
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The ASUS EP121 is the first slate that Microsoft opted to highlight just ahead of the start of the 2011 International Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas which CEO Steve Ballmer is scheduled to keynote later today. The Redmond company’s Ben Rudolph used this Tablet PC from ASUS for a full couple of weeks, p... |
5 January 2011
09:27 GMT |
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Building a new graphical user interface for the Tablet PC flavor of Internet Explorer should be on Microsoft’s mind.
This became obvious today as Opera Software delivered a sneak peek at Opera for Tablets, and announced that a preview will be introduced at the 2011 International Consumer Electronics Show w... |
4 January 2011
11:07 GMT |
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Not all plans progress as smoothly as IT companies might hope, and notebook vendors are presumably learning, or re-learning, this particular lesson now that Google seems unable to handle all of their requests at once.Since Google is the company developing the Android operating system, it, naturally, has a major say ... |
29 December 2010
08:13 GMT |
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Since MSI is already known to have prepared more than one slate for the upcoming CES, it is not altogether surprising to hear that one of them has been caught on video, which is exactly what happened to the one running Windows. As end-users know, the 2011 International Consumer Electronics Show is set to take place... |
29 December 2010
05:46 GMT |
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Microsoft and its OEM partners are expected to introduce anti-iPad slates running Windows 7 in 2011, or at least this can be inferred by the promises made by the Redmond company. Despite being in the Tablet PC game for approximately a decade, the software giant appears to have lost the start of the slate race to its... |
14 December 2010
08:35 GMT |
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It seems that the apparently instant success that the Vega slate enjoyed is something that makers of other tablets seek to emulate, and Notion Ink might just be one of the first to pull it off.Most new tablets are expected to make their appearance at the 2011 International CES (Consumer Electronics Show), an expo se... |
8 December 2010
10:47 GMT |
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Most of the debates on whether or not tablets are a threat to netbooks at least once mention how the latter have physical keyboards and the former don't, so Samsung figured it would invalidate that argument for at least one device.
As consumers well know, quite a number of tablets have been announced already... |
8 December 2010
06:20 GMT |
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In the history of Christmas presents, one might say that some come earlier than others, and it appears that HP decided to have a certain device of its become such an early present.As some may remember, HP was among the first to preview its tablet, though said media slate underwent an odd string of death and rebirth ... |
1 December 2010
09:35 GMT |
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Consumer preferences in terms of computing are shifting to a new form factor in the detriment of PCs and, at least for the time being, Windows.iPad and Tablet PCs provide increasing competition to traditional personal computers, so much so in fact, that market analysis firm Gartner has changed the forecast of worldw... |
30 November 2010
08:50 GMT |
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It seems that not all tablets released nowadays are aimed at consumers, as Fujitsu has just completed one that is meant for a Japanese company and designed as a larger than usual Window 7 slate.So far, quite a few number of tablets have been either previewed or already released, and Fujitsu has now added to the latt... |
30 November 2010
06:46 GMT |
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It seems that not all makers of PCs and consumer electronics have been enjoying the same sort of progress when it comes to their upcoming devices, and eLocity seems to have just delayed its media tablet yet again.The tablet market has really started to take off now that several models running Windows 7 or a version ... |
29 November 2010
08:15 GMT |
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It seems that the iPad will soon see enough of a competition for Apple to truly start optimizing or redesigning it, now that forecasts put the sales of other tablets at a total of many million for 2011. As end-users well know, most everyone was skeptical about the odds of tablets surviving on a market dominated by n... |
24 November 2010
08:45 GMT |
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With all the hype surrounding the growing tablet market, it is only a matter of time before the bigger suppliers of PCs come out in full force, and Acer may do it sooner than other if its upcoming press conference turns out as rumors expect it to.Tablets have definitely grabbed the attention of a fair number of cons... |
22 November 2010
05:54 GMT |
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Ever since Apple's iPad was first introduced we have seen a really large number of Chinese clones popping around all over the place, the Haleron H97 being one of the most interesting options available out there as this 9.7 inch offering retains a style really similar to that of the iPad while running the Windows... |
22 November 2010
04:22 GMT |
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With all the hype surrounding the tablet market, makers of PCs and consumer electronics are doing their best to make their respective inventions stand out, and it seems that eviGroup is ready to try its luck with the Paddle Pro.Even though makers of slates seem to be gravitating towards the ARM architecture, along w... |
16 November 2010
08:56 GMT |
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While there are still few tablets on sale to speak of, there are a variety of slates that are slated to eventually debut, and Wortmann decided to add an extra item to that list by unveiling the Terra Pad 1050.Despite the initial reservations that the IT industry had in regards to media tablets, it seems that slates ... |
11 November 2010
07:01 GMT |
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If you though that you saw it all when it comes down to iPad clones then just wait until you lay your eyes on this latest knock-off that swaps Apple's lean mobile operating system for a fully fledged Windows 7 OS and pairs it together with an Intel Atom processor.Available with both Atom N455 and Atom N475 CPUs ... |
9 November 2010
13:11 GMT |
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Even though the so-called tablet market keeps getting reports and announcements about ARM-powered slates running Android, there are still Windows 7 slates on the way, such as LG's own tablet, which has just passed through the FCC.As it is most often, if not always, the case with FCC filings, this tablet has not... |
2 November 2010
06:44 GMT |
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ViewSonic is one of the companies that decided to go for the dual-boot configuration when making its tablets, and it seems that one of its larger media slates, the ViewPad 10 to be exact, has just been given its official price tag.Like many of its peers, ViewSonic is getting ready to start shipping its own 10-inch m... |
1 November 2010
11:15 GMT |
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Although tablets grow in popularity every other day not many first tier manufacturers have released such products, Acer being among the first ones to do so since its CEO announced the Taiwanese company will launch its first line of tablet PCs on November 23rd, priced from $299 to $699 each.At the moment not many othe... |
27 October 2010
10:49 GMT |
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Well, Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer did promise earlier this year that Windows 7 tablet PCs would be coming by the end of 2010. With the HP Slate 500 having gone live last week, albeit quietly enough that customers are bound to almost not notice it at all, additional slates are starting to emerge. It is the case of A... |
27 October 2010
06:29 GMT |
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