Apple to Receive Real Competition from Microsoft with Their Own Windows 8 Tablet | CodeGuru

Apple to Receive Real Competition from Microsoft with Their Own Windows 8 Tablet

Microsoft is scheduled to announce plans to develop their own, in-house designed tablet device as early as next week. Microsoft typically leaves the hardware announcement to the hardware makers however they appear to be taking a page right out of Apple’s playbook by designing and building their own hardware and software for the same device. […]

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Jun 16, 2012
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Microsoft is scheduled to announce plans to develop their own, in-house designed tablet device as early as next week. Microsoft typically leaves the hardware announcement to the hardware makers however they appear to be taking a page right out of Apple’s playbook by designing and building their own hardware and software for the same device. Read the full story.

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