I would say myself that the Tablet PC really does need to work like mad to gain better recognition and catch up to the notebook market.

Introduced with great fanfare three years ago, Microsoft’s Windows Tablet PC has failed to live up to expectations. But the software giant and its hardware partners hope new products, including much smaller devices, will speed adoption of the technology.

Makers of tablet PCs — machines that run on the tablet-PC flavor of Microsoft’s Windows operating system software — aim to broaden the category with “ultramobile” tablets that are smaller than current tablet PCs but larger than today’s handheld computers or personal digital assistants. Microsoft (NasdaqNM:MSFT - News) and its partners expect to unveil such products this spring. [Read the rest]

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