When Jobs declared that 10-inch is the perfect size for a tablet, his imaginative faculty must have taken a short holiday because Microsoft is planning to “actually” launch gigantic 80-inch Windows 8 powered tablets in near future; but these tablets would be for offices and not for homes. Microsoft’s Frank Shaw revealed that Microsoft’s current CEO – Steve Ballmer has an 80-inch tablet in his office, hung on the wall like a portrait. “He’s got rid of his phone, he’s got rid of his note paper. It’s touch-enabled and it’s hung on his wall,” he said.
Microsoft had unveiled a similar 82-inch Windows 8 machine at MWC 2012. Shaw says Ballmer uses this gigantic screen as a whiteboard and email machine. Since this 82-inch marvel is gonna be a fully operational Windows 8 device, you’d be able to do everything that you can do on a Windows computer — from editing docs to watching movies and playing Xbox live games (if, of course, you are CEO of a big corp.). Maybe, this is another block in Microsoft’s vision of integrating all its products because this device looks perfect Kinect gaming (well that’s just an assumption; baseless, yet possible).
Microsoft believes “every screen should be touch, every screen should be a computer.” Because of its cost, the device would remain limited to offices of large corporations. Anyways, let’s wait for the time when Ballmer officially says something about this tablet.
Do you think Apple’s new CEO Tim Cook would start working on a 72-inch iBoard after hearing Microsoft’s plans? Share your opinions below.
That is really cool…80 inch tablet!! But, I would rather prefer new iPad instead…