Microsoft: Won't do tablet OS until it's distinctive

EXCLUSIVE: UK MD admits to using a Dell Duo. Microsoft’s UK managing director and ex-BBC man Ashley Highfield has exclusively told Pocket-lint that the company won’t produce a tablet device, and therefore follow in the footsteps of Apple and Google, until it's got something to shout about. "We won't do anything in the tablet market unless we can be distinctive," he told us. Of course, Microsoft already has a presence on a number of tablet PCs, thanks to Dell, Acer and Asus, but Highfield clearly doesn't see those as a direct competitor to Apple's iPad or Google's Honeycomb OS-powered devices, like the Motorola Xoom.

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