@NStalnecker
How exactly is this Microsoft leadership? Since the GUI defined the universal computing experience the die has been cast. The buying power of the consumer has defined the template of broad computer usage. Business has followed in lock-step. The best way to introduce touch computing to business is to subsidize it with a massive number of consumer purchases. Business benefits more than anyone from a pervasive platform. Last time I checked, business was charged with meeting broad and common human needs. Those needs were not met by Microsoft and their second rate attempts at a tablet. People looked at digital ink and laughed at the 2k device that did a terrible job of what a $2 pen and paper did superbly. The tablet needed to be a new way of consuming media, not a expensive, glorified pencil. "Take that iPad" indeed.
What a tablet... any tablet, needed was a groundswell of support from a lot of ordinary people. What it did not need is to be the bragging right of some boardroom barnacle.
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