Tablets are all the rage right now, and with Android and Apple’s iOS already well represented, the one name you’d expect to be making serious moves into the slate arena would be Microsoft.
After all, there are already a good few tablets running Windows 7 – despite it being designed as a PC operating system – and Windows Phone 7 is enjoying modest success in the mobile phone market.
But sadly, Microsoft still appears to be as much as a year and a half away from making a proper entrance into tablet-land. News service Bloomberg reports that the very first version of Windows 8 will only be shown off for the first time in June, with beta testing pencilled in to start in September or so.
But from there it looks set to be a full year before the first tablet-friendly version of Windows is ready to roll, with Bloomberg’s sources quoting a “2012 back-to-school” timeframe for actual tablets appearing on shelves.
Considering the pace Android is currently developing at, that’s surely an almost insurmountable head start, and you have to wonder if it’ll be too little, too late for the PC software giant
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