Whether or not this article is fluff or insight depends on what Microsoft is doing: Are they creating a new product category?
What if you could dock a tablet and run it with the power of a desktop PC? If the dock/undock experience could be made seamless, then this would constitute a new product category. (It would be somewhat like the OQO http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OQO )
If there was a docking mode that wirelessly linked and activated the screens just on device proximity without plugging in, then you could make the workstation/tablet transition relatively painless. There would be some lag with the wireless mode, but it should be good enough for light, mainly read-only actions. Plugging in would seamlessly transition to the desktop mode.
Add a wireless mode that links to the desktop display/input devices across WiFi, and you have a workable new product category.
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Whether or not this article is fluff or insight depends on what Microsoft is doing: Are they creating a new product category?
What if you could dock a tablet and run it with the power of a desktop PC? If the dock/undock experience could be made seamless, then this would constitute a new product category. (It would be somewhat like the OQO http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OQO )
If there was a docking mode that wirelessly linked and activated the screens just on device proximity without plugging in, then you could make the workstation/tablet transition relatively painless. There would be some lag with the wireless mode, but it should be good enough for light, mainly read-only actions. Plugging in would seamlessly transition to the desktop mode.
Add a wireless mode that links to the desktop display/input devices across WiFi, and you have a workable new product category.