, really. So this isn't "tablet" computing, it's "slate" computing. Which is totally different. Like, not even comparable. Psh. Pwah. Pff. C'mon. Completely different. [Eye roll]

One does wonder what Courier----will be when it gets introduced? They've already used up surface, tablet and slate. They're running out of flat things.

And how about that mixed message? Microsoft introduced a tablet technology this week that's the next-generation tablet technology they've already revealed. Way to inspire confidence in your customers and partners! Not that Microsoft would ever .

Microsoft's tablet "strategy" is like an Escher painting, full of staircases leading in every direction that all ultimately just go round in circles. The company so badly wants to be , bringing fire to the mortals. Instead it's like some drunk dude flicking matches at us.

Sorry, the horny one like both those metaphors too much to cut one of them.