Tablet PC Talk Forums

[ChrisD]

Why Windows 7 'slate' tablets won't happen

Remember all the buzz around Hewlett-Packard's Slate, a Windows 7-based tablet that Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer featured in a keynote presentation at the Consumer Electronics Show in January? It was Microsoft's shot across Apple's bow, meant to show Microsoft wasn't ceding the tablet market to the then-unreleased iPad. HP kept the Slate in the blogosphere's eye through occasional posts and carefully vague videos of the device at its Website.

But quietly, the Slate went away, and now the buzz around HP is that it will use Palm's WebOS as the foundation for iPad rivals, once it's completed its buyout of Palm. (On Friday, Digitimes quoted an HP Taiwan exec saying the Slate would use WebOS instead of Windows 7.)  (Source: Galen Gruman, InfoWorld)

_________________
Chris De Herrera
Webmaster
http://www.tabletpctalk.com
http://www.pocketpcfaq.com
http://www.pocketpctalk.com
http://www.mobilitytalk.com