{"id":13268,"date":"2014-11-12T23:16:23","date_gmt":"2014-11-12T23:16:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.techiteens.com\/review\/microsoft-declares-tablets-are-the-future\/"},"modified":"2014-11-12T23:16:23","modified_gmt":"2014-11-12T23:16:23","slug":"microsoft-declares-tablets-are-the-future","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.techiteens.com\/review\/microsoft-declares-tablets-are-the-future\/","title":{"rendered":"Microsoft Declares Tablets Are the Future"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Bill Gates demonstrates a functional prototype of a Tablet PC. Microsoft claims \u201cthe Tablet PC will represent the next major evolution in PC design and functionality.<\/a>\u201d However, the Tablet PC initiative never really takes off and it isn\u2019t until Apple introduces the iPad in 2010 that tablet computing is widely adopted.<\/p>\n

In my opinion, Microsoft\u2019s failure with the Tablet PC initiative was threefold. First, they simply tried to adapt Windows, an operating system designed for use with a keyboard and mouse, for use with a touchscreen\/pen interface. Users never really warmed up to the awkward hybrid interface. Second, by their own words they were \u201cincorporating the convenient and intuitive aspects of pencil and paper into the PC experience.\u201d Rather than innovating, it appears to me that Microsoft was moving backwards by trying to graft an older paradigm (pencil and paper) onto a computer. It\u2019s one thing to create an app or peripheral that mimics pencil and paper \u2013 it\u2019s another to base an entire technology initiative around it. Finally, Microsoft left the design of the hardware to their OEM partners, most of whom are not especially well-known for innovating designs. Most Tablet PCs were considered too big, heavy, and expensive, plus the required pen\/stylus was prone to loss. All of these factors left many Tablet PCs collecting dust if they were sold at all.<\/p>\n

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