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Re:Microsoft launches Office for iPad by pionar on Thursday March 27, 2014 @03:31PM (#7482801)
Yes, Microsoft put out the first tablet computers (with Toshiba's help, I believe) in the early 2000s. The problem was that they got it very wrong.
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Re:Microsoft launches Office for iPad by k-mcgrady on Thursday March 27, 2014 @05:18PM (#7483549)
>> "The problem was that they got it very wrong."

I think that's a little unfair. The technology just wasn't ready yet. The one place they got it really wrong was with the OS but we didn't have WiFi yet (well most people didn't), we didn't have the kind of touch displays we have now, flash storage wasn't cost effective so they probably used HDD's. They had the general idea right but were too early. Unfortunately when the tech was ready MS was too slow.

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Re:Microsoft launches Office for iPad by com2kid on Friday March 28, 2014 @02:58AM (#7485719)
Actually, early 90s, and they were second!

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

(Watch some of the youtube demos, really cool)

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