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Tablets Trade-Offs And Compromises

November 4, 2012 – 10:14 pm

Tweet  A couple of hours after landing in SFO from Paris, I find myself setting up two new tablets: a Microsoft Surface and an iPad mini. While on the road, I had read much on both products and felt reasonably well prepared for the tasks. This proved correct. But the product experience was another thing. [...]

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Microsoft: Apostasy Or Head Fake?

June 25, 2012 – 12:23 am

TweetMy appetite whetted by three days of rumors, I went online last Monday and watched Microsoft introduce its Surface tablets. After the previous false starts — the moribund Tablet PC and the still-born Courier — Microsoft finally took matters into its own hands. Ballmer & Co. could no longer wait for OEMs to create vehicles [...]

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