{"id":22450,"date":"2010-10-05T12:10:00","date_gmt":"2010-10-05T08:10:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/localhost\/?p=22450"},"modified":"2010-10-05T12:10:51","modified_gmt":"2010-10-05T08:10:51","slug":"christmas-gets-tablet-crazy-microsoft-announces-windows-slates-by-holiday-season","status":"publish","type":"magazine","link":"https:\/\/brainstation.io\/magazine\/christmas-gets-tablet-crazy-microsoft-announces-windows-slates-by-holiday-season","title":{"rendered":"Christmas gets tablet-crazy: Microsoft announces Windows slates by holiday season"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"float: right;\" src=\"http:\/\/www.redmondpie.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/01\/MicrosoftHPSlate.jpg\" alt=\"Slate\" width=\"314\" height=\"197\" \/>As Microsoft struggles for relevance in the fast-paced, highly competitive portable device market, chief exec Steve Ballmer promised a Microsoft slate tablet by the Christmas season. Does this mean it will be buyable? Not necessarily&mdash;just that we&#8217;ll &#8220;see&#8221; them.<\/p>\n<p>The timing coincides with Research in Motion&#8217;s Blackberry PlayBook, a hardware-heavy 7-inch device, and also somewhat with the forthcoming Dell streak, available in a PlayBook size and a 10-inch iPad size. Speaking of the iPad, Christmas is also looking like a good time for Apple to unveil a second-gen iPad, which is starting to look woefully underwhelming as considerably more capable tablets prep for market launch.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As Microsoft struggles for relevance in the fast-paced, highly competitive portable device market, chief exec Steve Ballmer promised a Microsoft slate tablet by the Christmas season. Does this mean it will be buyable? Not necessarily&mdash;just that we&#8217;ll &#8220;see&#8221; them. The timing coincides with Research in Motion&#8217;s Blackberry PlayBook, a hardware-heavy 7-inch device, and also somewhat [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":55555,"featured_media":22452,"menu_order":0,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"magazine-region":[],"magazine-series":[],"magazine-topic":[],"class_list":["post-22450","magazine","type-magazine","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brainstation.io\/wp\/api\/wp\/v2\/magazine\/22450","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brainstation.io\/wp\/api\/wp\/v2\/magazine"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brainstation.io\/wp\/api\/wp\/v2\/types\/magazine"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brainstation.io\/wp\/api\/wp\/v2\/users\/55555"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/brainstation.io\/wp\/api\/wp\/v2\/magazine\/22450\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brainstation.io\/wp\/api\/wp\/v2\/media\/22452"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brainstation.io\/wp\/api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22450"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brainstation.io\/wp\/api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22450"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brainstation.io\/wp\/api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22450"},{"taxonomy":"magazine-region","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brainstation.io\/wp\/api\/wp\/v2\/magazine-region?post=22450"},{"taxonomy":"magazine-series","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brainstation.io\/wp\/api\/wp\/v2\/magazine-series?post=22450"},{"taxonomy":"magazine-topic","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brainstation.io\/wp\/api\/wp\/v2\/magazine-topic?post=22450"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}