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Finally they've accepted the fact that they need to optimize to apple products, the Gates mentality has been blocking innovation in this area and this might be the breakthrough !

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Huh? What does this have to do with Gates? Under Gates leadership MS has been developing software for Apple since the 90's.

Edit: Fixed possible factual error.

They've released for Apple since basically forever. The Apple II shipped with Microsoft Basic for a while, IIRC.

IIRC the MS Excel, a cornerstone of the MS Office was first released for Mac, and only later for Windows.

And don't forget Explorer for Mac back in the day :)

If you listen to recent interviews, he still holds to the view that Microsoft has always been the true innovator with regard to tablets, and that's where serious business computing takes place.

Yes, Microsoft put out the first tablet computers (with Toshiba's help, I believe) in the early 2000s. The problem was that they got it very wrong.

>> "The problem was that they got it very wrong."

I think that's a little unfair. The technology just wasn't ready yet. The one place they got it really wrong was with the OS but we didn't have WiFi yet (well most people didn't), we didn't have the kind of touch displays we have now, flash storage wasn't cost effective so they probably used HDD's. They had the general idea right but were too early. Unfortunately when the tech was ready MS was too slow.

Actually, early 90s, and they were second!

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Windows_for_Pen_Computing

(Watch some of the youtube demos, really cool)

While you are right, you might want to check this https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0GxLS7PqEbM

Gates has attacked the iPad on every interview claiming that it's useless.

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