Microsoft CEO, Steve Ballmer, is not happy with the huge iPad sales. He said that at an meeting with analysts at the Microsoft headquarters in Redmond. Ballmer spoke about the ambitious plans the company has with tablet computers running Windows. Together with smartphones, these tablets should be a big competition for Apple and Google, he claims.
Apple has sold over 3 million iPads and Microsoft is not happy with those numbers. The company is now working together with Acer, Dell, Toshiba and other companies to bring Windows-running tablet- or ‘slate’-devices on the market.
“We’re coming full guns,” said Ballmer at the company’s annual presentation to analysts at its Redmond, Washington headquarters. “We’re going to sell like crazy; we’re going to market like crazy.”
The main priority of the company is to bring tablets on the market. And instead of using chips from ARM, Microsoft will use Intel chips. A new chip will push the tablet-market to the next level next year, says Ballmer. Windows Phone 7 should also be a game changer for Microsoft. The new mobile phones running this operating system should arrive this fall. Steve Ballmer added that Microsoft will try to ‘aggressively’ promote the new tablets and mobile phones.
Source: Reuters
