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Re:Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer to retire within 12 months by 300bps on Friday August 23, 2013 @02:02PM (#6265201)
And Surface tablets are also a clear response to the iPad

I find it hard to believe that someone who writes something this wrong can function in society.

Microsoft invented the tablet computer a decade before the iPad existed.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microsoft_Tablet_PC

Their marketing may have sucked, but they were well ahead of the rest of the industry (and apparently the world).

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Re:Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer to retire within 12 months by tedsanders on Friday August 23, 2013 @02:59PM (#6265606)
>I find it hard to believe that someone who writes something this wrong can function in society.

Please, stay civil. :)

Anyway, I don't think the statement is wrong. Sure, Microsoft had tablet computers first, but I think it's also true that the Surface RT and Surface Pro were made in response to the iPad's success.

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Re:Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer to retire within 12 months by scholia on Friday August 23, 2013 @07:03PM (#6266724)
As a matter of fact, the development of the Surface software started before the iPad came out...
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Re:Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer to retire within 12 months by leetrout on Friday August 23, 2013 @10:24PM (#6267315)
Citation requested.

Are you referring to PixelSense?

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Re:Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer to retire within 12 months by scholia on Saturday August 24, 2013 @09:19AM (#6268555)
No, PixelSense had nothing to do with it.

http://uxweek.com/2012/speakers/jensen-harris/

The antecedents to the Metro design were in Zune HD and the Zune desktop client, among other things.

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