Ha ha. Microsoft's 'iPad Killer' died and they had to grab another during its introduction.

[onehandle]

This was live on stage. Afterwards Microsoft wouldn't even let journalists use one with it's 'visionary' keyboard.

Additionally, they totally ripped off Steve Job's script from when he introduced the iPad 18 Months Ago

So funny...

[L0oniX]

1. Classic ...and not the first time for a MS product. Remember the BSOD video?

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[gregoire]

7. Please say BSOD

Because calling it by that wrong name makes it sound like you're attempting to associate Microsoft's many failed products with good products from UC Berkeley. Berkeley Software Distribution was a pleasure to use in the mid to late 80's, and Microsoft still hasn't caught-up to BSD 1985 yet.

[L0oniX]

13. Fixed ...sorry ...I used FreeBSD for a long time until Ubuntu.

[unreadierLizard]

2. It's funny because Microsoft originally introduced the tablet in 2002

with no fanfare, but now thanks to Apple, they're being accused of ripping off the Ipad.

[emulatorloo]

3. Tell us more about this innovative and successful Microsoft tablet!

[d_r]

4. I've had an used

this one-



and this one-




There have been many more.

I've been thinking about getting them out of the garage and putting ubuntu on them but both have dead to the world batteries.

[onehandle]

6. I said script. It's Android that ripped off the iPhone and iPad.

Microsoft's interface is actually a diversion from iOS.

Android, is a cheap, crappy copy.

[d_r]

10. I don't have an ipod or iphone

and I don't know anything about ios, but I was under the impression that android was much more customizable and open than the ios. I may be wrong though, but that's the impression I've been given. I was also under the impression that both ios and android were based on unix.

[onehandle]

11. Unix is an open-standard OS. Android stole the UI from Apple.

Badly.

One of their honchos sat on the Apple board and was ferreting info to Google.

Suddenly, Android had a UI in development.

Before the theft, Android was a Blackberry clone.

[Xyzse]

5. Indeed

They even had a really innovative one that I would have wanted them to continue, which was a two touch-screen interface, where it was designed to look like a book.

That fork was discontinued since it was going to provide applications that would have directly rivaled the Office suites and so forth.

Their tablet looks like something for a different market.

Here:

[LanternWaste]

8. Makes me wonder if they'll refuse selling it to a brown person like Apple did...

Makes me wonder if they'll refuse selling it to a brown person like Apple did...


(cool your jets, righteous cowboys... to me, it's just six of one, half a dozen of the other-- don't really care which corporations we worship)

[Woody Woodpecker]

9. Reminds me of this:

Windows 98 crash while launching the same software.

[Initech]

12. More like ipad killer fail!