Microsoft Dives Head-First Into Mobile Hardware With Two 10.6-Inch Tablets | Gadget Lab
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- Created on 19 June 2012
Steve Ballmer caresses Microsoft Surface, his company's ambitious new Windows 8 tablet platform. Image: Associated Press.
LOS ANGELES — Forget about operating systems. Forget about mice, keyboards and snoozy computer accessories. Microsoft is now a full-fledged, no-excuses mobile computing manufacturer. On Monday a team of excited executives showed off Microsoft Surface — a pair of Windows tablets accompanied by clever keyboard covers that aspire to true innovation in the mobile space.
“It’s a PC that is a great tablet, and a tablet that is a great PC,” said Steven Sinofsky, President of the Windows and Windows Live Division.
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