Windows RT still alive at Acer, spokeswoman says

16.08.2012
Acer plans to produce Windows RT devices at some point, according to a company spokeswoman.

That statement comes after Acer's CEO blasted Microsoft for building the Surface RT tablet. On Monday, Microsoft excluded Acer from its list of Windows RT device makers.

"Acer plans to incorporate Windows RT into our product roadmap, but we have not yet confirmed the timing of our product launches," an Acer spokeswoman told Computerworld today.

In June, Acer President Jim Wong said the Taiwan-based manufacturer would in the first quarter of 2013. He didn't specify it would be a tablet, calling it a "portable device."

The latest statement from Acer comes after a from Microsoft indicated that Asus, Dell, Lenovo and Samsung .

Neither Acer nor Toshiba was listed by Microsoft as producers of Windows RT devices, even though both had indicated intentions earlier to build Windows RT tablets.