Ballmer: We've got to make things happen with Windows 7

[Flavius]

Steve Ballmer in July 2010:

Just like we had to make things happen on netbooks, we've got to make things happen with Windows 7 on slates. And we are in the process of doing that as we speak. We're working with our hardware partners, we're tuning Windows 7 to new slate hardware designs that they're bringing them to market. .. http://tech.fortune.cnn.com/2010/07/30/steve-ballmer-on-the-ipad-the-transcript/

The latest, some same the best so far is the Asus Eee Slate Ep121. The review below gives you everything, what the device is and who should use it.
You can get it on Amazon. I recommend you read some of the reviews, there are very positive. http://www.amazon.com/ASUS-Slate-EP...ummary_cm_cr_acr_txt?ie=UTF8&showViewpoints=1
It has been said Microsoft has no response to the iPad but fact is that Microsoft has been working on this for a long time and very consistently.

"We've got to make things happen with Windows 7"

From the article:

It's the year 2011, but it might as well be 2001. The company that Bill built is still going strong in the pursuit of its founding father's dream: a pen-based tablet computer. The latest, and perhaps best, exhibitor of this ideal is ASUS' Eee Slate, a 12.1-inch, Core i5-equipped Windows 7 tablet that comes with a Wacom digitizer and a dedicated silo in its side for accommodating that snow-white stylus.

http://www.engadget.com/2011/03/20/microsoft-and-asus-show-off-all-the-stylish-stylus-action-you-ca/

 

[Robert Maxwell]

I sure hope they turn out a lot better than the Origami initiative did.

 

[Marc]

I sure hope they turn out a lot better than the Origami initiative did.

and better luck than they seem to be having atm trying to leverage Win7 Mobile.

http://www.networkworld.com/community/blog/phone-maker-publicly-says-‘no’-wp7

Smartphone maker ZTE has publicly dissed Microsoft, saying the Windows Phone 7 mobile operating system is not popular enough, nor has Microsoft done enough to make it so, and that ZTE sees no reason for it to develop a smartphone running WP7. This is not the kind of news Microsoft likes to hear as it struggles to gain traction for its well regarded but not well received OS.


The comments, attributed to Wu Sa, ZTE’s U.K. director of mobile device operations, were reported in the Wall Street Journal. ZTE may not be a household name like phone makers Samsung, Motorola or Nokia, but it is the fifth largest handset maker globally. Wu told the Journal that ZTE is testing WP7 phones in its laboratories but has no immediate plans to bring a WP7 phone to market. ZTE phones run the Google Android OS and it makes carrier-branded phones such as those running on the Orange network in Europe.

 

[Flavius]

Here's what I don't understand: Ballmer and friends keep refuting Steve Jobs assertion about PC's becoming the trucks of personal computing in the near future.
If they don't feel threatened by the iPads success why don't they play along and put the xbox OS on a tablet and rake in the coins?

Hey, and from the money they make with that one they could subsidize the windows 7 business tablets.