• Reuters, Tuesday, October 5, 2010 1:57 PM

"You'll see new slates with Windows on them. You'll see them this Christmas," Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer told an audience at the London School of Economics. Ballmer had actually unveiled a HP manufactured Windows tablet at this year's Consumer Electronic show, beating Steve Jobs to the punch, but not to market.

A few months after CES in Vegas, HP bought Palm and said it was developing a tablet based on Palm's OS, though it did not say it was scrapping the Windows-based device. Ballmer did not offer any specifics beyond the vague "you'll see," nor did he say they'd actually be for sale by then.

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