Microsoft Windows Phone President Andy Lees restatement of Microsofts tablet positioning has kicked off again the debate as to whether tablets and PCs are one and the same.



From All About Microsoft:

Lees, one of the keynoters at the Microsoft Worldwide Partner Conference on July 12, told the Microsoft partners in attendance that Microsoft is holding onto its decision to ban ts OEM partners from using the Windows Phone operating system as the OS for tablets. This isn’t new; Microsoft execs have been saying the same for months. But here’s what Lees said yesterday:

“Now, a lot of people have asked me, are we going to produce a phone that is a tablet? You know, are we going to use Windows Phone 7 to produce tablets? Well, that is in conflict with this strategy. We view a tablet as a sort of PC. We want people to be able to do the sorts of things that they expect on a PC on a tablet, things like networking to be able to connect to networks, and utilize networking tools, to get USB drives and plot them into the tablet. To be able to do things like printing, all of the things using Office, using all of the things you would expect from a PC and provide a hybrid about how you can do that with the tablet, as well.”

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