Long tablet road of Microsoft

Today, Microsoft formally released their confess brand of Surface series Windows 8 pocket memorandum-book computer, quiet after period of time officially join troche computer war. But in fact, the opportunity to pass of explorations has already started in seasonable 2000. At that time, because the connected view or technical reasons, the battery or reason of the understanding of the tablet, Microsoft can't success put lozenge into mainstream, but it really made material contributions in promotion of tablet general and consciousness. Let's look at Microsoft in addition than 10 years of tablet action.

Bill Gates has put forward theconcept of Tablet PC taken in the character of early as 2000 in Las Vegas Comdex interview (from the PC concept extends the Tablet computer concepts), and ponder this equipment should be able to surpassingly good recognition handwritten. In-02, Microsoft's highest fruits out - Windows XP Tablet PC. This description of tablet then gain some engaged in traffic use, but never into the mainstream emporium.

A few years later, Gates anew conceived the future of the pocket memorandum-book PC, when its tablet computer has begun to like with iPad now. Gates predicted slab computer should parity, low to $500 or in the same state, can run all day, and hold a very good touch experience. According to the idea of the Gates, Microsoft and some hardware partners started Origami project anew, but the project out tablet equipment not to Gates's anticipated. Such in the same manner with Microsoft and samsung cooperation of Q1 tablet beyond hundreds dollar of the compensation of 500 line, and touch experience not beautiful, life also not graceful. Therefore, under the technology not completed enough, Microsoft again gave up its small table plan.

But soon after, maybe is forecasted that troche technology began to mature, Microsoft started slab project Courier again. This tablet nevertheless a double screen tablet, still assertion in main handwritten input , and developed the agency of entertainment equipment R&D province. But unfortunately, that tablet had been cut off not seen the sun.

So subsequent the three stages, the clock to today, Microsoft began the road of the tablet computer again. Just at this time, the background is totally divers. Microsoft will face extremely difficult competitive environment. So Microsoft will fail a from retirement time?