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Ballmer Lays out Microsoft Mobile Strategy

Steve said last week that Microsoft's tactic is to lure everybody to sleep with incredibly dumb ideas like the Kin and then strike when Apple least expects it... OK, not really. Ballmer did try to come up with something to say about Microsoft mobile "strategy" last week, though. As for Microsoft producing a tablet computer of its own... Well, that might not happen for a while (thanks in large part to Intel).

Posted by Lee Pender on August 02, 2010


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