Ballmer Reveals HP Slate in Speech, Microsoft Courier Still MIA

January 7, 2010 By Dena Cassella

Steve Ballmer revealed an HP Windows 7-powered tablet in his keynote speech last night-- Microsoft Courier prototype tablet was not mentioned.

Hopes were high as Microsoft’s Steve Ballmer took the stage to give his keynote speech—a new tablet would be announced and tech-lovers everywhere crossed their fingers for the Microsoft Courier’s debut. Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer did not divulge any new secrets about the illusive concept tablet, a dual-screen device that folds up like a book, but he did introduce three tablet computers running the touch-enabled Windows 7.

The tablets were built by Hewlett-Packard Co. (HP), Asus spinoff Pegatron, and media player maker Archos. Ballmer and HP were pretty tight lipped about pricing and specs for the HP slate, but Ballmer did give a quick demo in which he pulled up Twilight on the tablet’s Amazon Kindle application. The tablet immediately displayed the cover of the teenage-vampire love story—a pair of hands cradling an apple—nice one Steve.

The HP prototype slate is said to be arriving later this year and Ballmer’s keynote, in its entirety, can be seen at Microsoft’s CES Web site. Check out the product clip.

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Analyst warns Microsoft needs tablet to compete with iPad, or else at 5:06pm 13th December 2010 [...] to hover below 10 percent.If any of this sound familiar, that’s because it is. Ballmer announced a flagship Microsoft tablet at last year’s CES, which showed up late and overpriced. But Ballmer reaffirmed this summer that Windows 7 slates are [...]
FreeMicrosoftPoints at 10:12pm 4th July 2010 I saw this in their presentation, it reminds me of an Ipad or the table that acts like a computer. Sincerely, http://www.free5000microsoftpoints.com/get-free-m...