Microsoft Monitor: Tablet PC, RIP? Nope, that story is all wrong!

Microsoft Monitor: Tablet PC, RIP? Nope, that story is all wrong!

I've been games focused this week but let me take a quick break here to comment. Let me be clear. Tablet PC is not going away. Feel free to argue and debate it but it's not going away. Period. Tablet for the foreseeable future will be a superset of computing. Something that is a Notebook Plus. Overtime, that will probably change but not every notebook will have Tablet functions. Just like today, not every notebook has an optical drive. Now having said that, the Tablet team has not done the best job marketing (this is becoming a familiar theme). Where are the ROI numbers to justify the marginal cost that Tablet increases? Where are the evangelizing efforts to show the world what they are missing? Where's the buzz about Lonestar? Tablet is here to stay but it could be a lot more successful if Microsoft and partners put together a coherent and cogent marketing effort behind it. (oh, and someone builds a device like the X40 that can get me through a full day without a recharge and still weigh less than four pounds).