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Tablet PC in trouble - Microsoft blamed
According to a report by the research company Canalys, Tablet PC sales have been very disappointing, the firm blames Microsoft for the technology's troubles.
[blockquote]HP, Acer and Toshiba launched tablet-PC hardware at the same time that Microsoft launched its Windows XP Tablet PC Edition, but after a promising start, sales have fallen sharply with analysts and manufacturers blaming Microsoft for charging too much for its operating system.
Chris Jones, senior analysts and director at Canalys, said that Microsoft isn't doing enough to help Tablet PC vendors, particularly in Europe: "Rather than pricing the Tablet PC OS at a premium, adding to the vendors' costs and the end-user price, it should be doing the opposite: subsidizing the vendors to help them get the market up and running," he said in a statement.
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[link=http://zdnet.com.com/2100-1103_2-5103941.html]The full report[/link]
[blockquote]HP, Acer and Toshiba launched tablet-PC hardware at the same time that Microsoft launched its Windows XP Tablet PC Edition, but after a promising start, sales have fallen sharply with analysts and manufacturers blaming Microsoft for charging too much for its operating system.
Chris Jones, senior analysts and director at Canalys, said that Microsoft isn't doing enough to help Tablet PC vendors, particularly in Europe: "Rather than pricing the Tablet PC OS at a premium, adding to the vendors' costs and the end-user price, it should be doing the opposite: subsidizing the vendors to help them get the market up and running," he said in a statement.
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[link=http://zdnet.com.com/2100-1103_2-5103941.html]The full report[/link]
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A device that accepts either pen-based or keyboard-based user input, can readily convert pen-based input to text and use this "digital ink" to make changes to an electronic document as easily as you could with a paper document would be pretty nifty for a lot of us.
It's too bad the price is outrageous.