A few weeks ago, I wrote a rather lengthy comparison of the announced-but-not-yet-shipping Hewlett-Packard Slate tablet computer and compared it to the Apple iPad. I wrote, "The iPad certainly is not the only such computer. Other manufacturers have either recently released slate computers or are about to release such systems. The one competitor to Apple that seems to be obtaining a lot of publicity is Hewlett-Packard which expects to ship a new slate system shortly."
There is but one problem: Hewlett-Packard reportedly has now killed its Windows 7 tablet computer, says a source who’s been briefed on the matter.
The report claims that that HP is not satisfied with Windows 7 as a tablet operating system and has terminated the project. You can read more at http://techcrunch.com/2010/04/29/hewlett-packard-to-kill-windows-7-tablet-project/
This news comes only a few days after Microsoft canceled its similar Courier project, a different but similar tablet computer project. Microsoft executives informed the internal development team that had been working on the tablet device that the project would no longer be supported. Courier had never been publicly announced or acknowledged as a Microsoft product.All this news seems to provide even better opportunities for the Apple iPad. Not that the iPad needs many more opportunities. More than one million iPads were sold in the first month the device was available.
