After holding the plane-table computer courier with two sensory screens this year, Microsoft company does plan to announce its own plane-table device.
The basic activity form for Microsoft is the development of software. For HP company analysts predict the second place after Apple in the segment of plane-table computers, for the production of devices on base of the operating system Microsoft it refused, after using webOS 3 recently reached from Palm. We can also observe how the important computers producers count on the operating systems google.
According to the statements of Microsoft representatives, at the current conference the management of the company expressed enthusiasm relative to the prospects for the mastery of market for plane-table computers. Microsoft's counts on the use of Windows 7 in the segment of plane-table computers, and it attempts to be pleased to both average and corporate users. In the latter case, we deal with the compatibility with professional software. The keyboard of such plane-table devices can be virtual or structurally self-contained.
Microsoft can encounter a problem with high prices. The majority of devices on the base of alternative operating systems will cost less than $499, and hardly someone will wish to pay several hundred dollars for the operating system Windows 7.
Microsoft's representatives already noted that Windows 7 can obtain a special version, adapted to the special features of plane-table computers.