Good story by Cnet’s Ina Fried: Microsoft figured out that something sort of like the iPad would become important years before folks started to talk about an “Apple tablet,” but failed to build it with its hardware partners.

I think it’s hard to overestimate just how much Microsoft’s tablet strategy–slightly modifying Windows to run on radically new types of hardware–damaged its prospects over the past decade or so.

 
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