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How will Microsoft respond to Apple iPad?

Microsoft has released tablet computers in the past, but they never caught on. What will the company do now in the wake of the iPad's popularity?

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At the Comdex trade show in 2000, Bill Gates waxed poetic about the future of tablet computers. Prototype tablets running Microsoft software came out a year later. But Microsoft-based tablets never went mainstream, and so the company might be feeling kind of bad now that Apple is getting a lot of attention for its new iPad tablet computer.

Guest: Ina Fried, CNET News.com

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