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Microsoft's slow crawl to the tablet market is nearly at an end. It's designed the interface of its next operating system, Windows 8, to be easy to use on tablets as well as desktops. It's created a special version, Windows 8 RT, especially for mobile ARM-based devices. It's even shoved out multiple free preview versions of the upcoming OS.
All that needs to happen now is an official release for Windows 8, which is supposed to happen this fall.
And I suppose it'll also need some hardware. That would be helpful.
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Only Apple makes iPads, and Android tablet sales haven't exactly been explosive. A well-made Windows tablet, however, could be a huge seller for enterprises, road warriors, or anyone who wants a tablet and prefers Windows above all else.
But this is not a normal situation. Microsoft apparently isn't willing to let its tablet vision be completely altered by the lens of outside hardware makers. Under Microsoft's typical practice of selling licenses, outside companies still get to have their way with the final product. It doesn't matter how many restrictions or design edicts or technical minimums and maximums Redmond places on third-party hardware makers. Even though the arrangement makes for a nicely diverse world of devices, it's not a method that allows Microsoft to realize whatever it thinks the "perfect" implementation of its software ought to be.
So Microsoft is going to make its own tablet. The Microsoft Surface line consists of two slates -- a light and thin one running Windows 8 RT and a fat and heavy one running a full version of Windows 8. Both will feature 10.6-inch screens. Pricing isn't known yet, but the thin version should come out about the time Windows 8 lands this fall, with the fat one coming about three months later.
The devices themselves seem to look a lot like just about every other tablet on the market. But they also feature a sort of built-in kickstand in the back for propping themselves up on a table. And instead of making the screen cover a simple piece of folding plastic, Microsoft has built a keyboard into it. You can still use the typical onscreen touch keyboard interface, but if you'd rather kick out the stand and unfurl the cover, you can use a Surface almost as though it's a notebook computer.
Building a device itself is a highly unusual move for Microsoft, but it's not unprecedented. It makes the Xbox 360 itself, and that's one of its hottest sellers. But quality was an issue for the Xbox 360, especially in the early years when it was frequently haunted by the Red Ring of Death. Other Microsoft hardware endeavors include the Zune -- the less said about that the better.
But in those two examples, Microsoft's rivals are clearly outside its own camp. In video games, Sony and Nintendo have their own platforms -- nobody else makes hardware running Xbox software. And in the personal media player market, Apple's iPod was really the only opponent worth mentioning.
In tablets, though, Microsoft's own partners are going to be competing against the company itself for sales. Many of those companies were reportedly blindsided by the news of the Surface. But maybe Microsoft had a good reason for doing what it did. Lots of those same hardware makers have been dabbling in Android tablets, with varying degrees of success, and perhaps Microsoft took that as a sign that when it comes to tablets, there are going to be a lot of open relationships.