According to Todd Bishop at TechFlash, “one source who has been accurate in the past recently cited the possibility of an (J) Allard project reviving the Tablet PC.”
J Allard is Microsoft’s Chief Experience Officer (CXO) and Chief Technology Officer (CTO) and might just be the right person to drive a new Tablet project.
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Yeah, that’s what we need – another failure in the marketplace, so various "pundits" and "analysts" can tell us afterwards why Tablets are dead, if not a solution to a problem that didn’t exist in the first place. Anyone doubting Microsofts competence to screw things up raise your hand or forever hold your breath.
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ianf ⌘? What’s the deal? Tablet PCs and other digital ink products are a solution to many problems. Maybe some people do not perceive them as problems; for example, watch people in meetings put their notebooks up on the table and rudely block themselves from others and the presenter. A Tablet PC owner can simply use the Tablet mode, write the notes, and be done. Politeness is one benefit to a tablet pc. .. and I can think of many many more. Have you ever tried a Tablet PC? The power of the pen far exceeds a plain ole notebook.
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I think tablets have just been not quite there for a while now. They certainly have use. Accuracy, integration into the OS, battery life, these are all issues that seem to be areas where the Tablet can finally break out.
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LPHâ„¢, that was part sarcasm directed at Microsoft, not tablets per se. Because we all know what a success the last sub-notebook push by dear old Bill, UMPC, was. If they again try their hand at a tablet and fail this time, it’ll mean to the "pundits" that there really was no need to it in the first place, and muddy the pool of finance etc. for tablets for the next couple of years (since not even the mighty M could hack it). Microsoft has never been able to produce any hardware (above keyboards and mice) that wasn’t a commercial failure. This clear enough for your companion?
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Thank you for clearing that up – I really wasn’t sure about sarcasm or serious.
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The risk is very much real: what if their product feasibility study goes no deeper than to "let’s make a tablet version of the so-oh-popular netbooks that are now all the vogue," and come out with a misintegrated, underpowered unit designed mainly to preëmpt sales of any potential iTablet that may or may not shimmer over the horizon?
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