As an important witness in the PC era, Microsoft founder Bill Gates was asked about the PC market downturn, Gates tablet PCs that more and more users, the boundaries between traditional PCs and tablet PCs increasingly more blurred. Microsoft Surface Tablet PC to meet the consumer at the same time need to maintain easy to carry, but also provides traditional PC should experience. Tablet PC strategy for Microsoft, Bill Gates is also very optimistic about the launch of Windows 8, Microsoft is expected to attract more users in the tablet market, especially some want to use the tablet computer typing, editing a file, Surface RT and Surface Pro provides the user with the keyboard, does not affect the portability of the Tablet PC at the same time, but also retains some important function PC.
In recognition of their own products, Bill Gates talked about Apple iPad tablet PC market as the biggest winner, Gates thought that the iPad user experience is very bad, and users with the iPad typing is not convenient, edit the file and the underlying operating difficulties heavy, the iPad can not use the Office software.
But obviously the tablet PC market reaction at odds with the argument of Bill Gates, iPad suitable for online browsing, audio and video playback and play games, office performance gap with the PC obvious, but this did not affect the consumer use the iPad deterred, the first quarter of 2013 Apple iPad global sales of $ 1,950 million units; stark contrast with the iPad Hot Surface Microsoft actively promote the sales are still far behind in the iPad Surface RT and Surface Pro since its release, according to industry estimates, sales totaled nearly $ 300 million units.
Moreover, iPad Office software is Microsoft intentionally contain iPad and delay in the introduction, in the final analysis it is not Microsoft's problem, this inconvenience blaming the iPad seems a tiny far-fetched it.
