Windows 8 tablet sooner than we expect?

Microsoft is scrambling to get some traction in the slippery tablet space, even though it invented the genre back in 2002. The next version of Windows, called Windows 8 for now, is supposed to embrace the tablet form better than anything produced to date. That should be a long way out, but information leaked by Dell implies it will release a Windows 8 tablet in Q1 of 2012. Can that timetable be met

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Here is one of the growth comparison for mobile devices:

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I could agree on this, tablets seem to be the next thing.

But in 2012! Seems pretty fast!

But I guess that is why I love it!

Ryan
 

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in the 4th Quarter of 2010, the Worldwide shipments of mobile devices (smartphones and tablets) exeeded the shipments of PCs for the first tiem - 101 Million VS. 97 Million. I wonder who is buying all that stuff.
 

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People who bought iPads for Christmas
 

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People who bought iPads for Christmas

That would account for a few Million (total iPads sold to date is 8 Million). But we are talking 101 Million in 1 quarter. Amazing. And the big Tablet rush is just starting. There is one new Honeycomb tablet coming out every week - not to speak about Palm-OS and the others.
 

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