If there is one company that has tablets in its history it’s Microsoft, they have a full mini-site devoted to trying to sell their XP tablet to students in Hong Kong (yep, Hong Kong) and as far back as 2001 Bill Gates previewed a line of Tablet PCs live on stage. But something went wrong, many journalists have stated that the world simply wasn’t ready for the Tablet PC, it wouldn’t be unreasonable however to suggest that the Tablet PC wasn’t ready for the world.
As the touch phone market has so ably demonstrated, we don’t need a full operating system controlled only by touch, in fact we don’t even want it. When it comes to touch devices less is more, there is only so much you can do with a few taps, swipes and flicks before the whole thing becomes, frankly, rather awkward. It is for this exact reason that Apple, Google. Palm and Nokia have kept their mobile operating systems simple, too much flexibility is, in fact, a bad thing.
So will Microsoft have any luck with their latest tablet offering? Have your say in the comments.
