Seems that some people at Microsoft are taking offense at Nokia naming the 770 the Internet tablet. Since, unless you lived under the rock over the past few years, Microsoft advertised Tablet PCs (running Microsoft(r) Windows (r) XP (r) Tablet PC(r)), naturally, and now the term would seemingly get diluted. Seems like Microsoft would be all over this if (a) the term tablet hasn’t been used so widely throughout and (b) they only sold 600K of those Tablet PCs in 2004, so it’s below the radar of the legal department. Plus, the differentiation of Tablet PC (notice the PC in there) versus Internet tablet should more or less provide the buyer with the right expectations of what exactly they are getting.
The blogger (who later states he’s “calmed” down about the issue) says firmly, “TabletPCs are full-function mobile computers running Windows XP . . .”. It’s a tablet meant to replace a full computer. An internet tablet seems justifiably named; it’s oriented towards acessing the internet, not word processing, etc., for which you would want a full computer.
Comment by Roger 06.16.05 @ 7:26 pm“…not word processing…”
http://www.indt.org.br/maemo/index.html#abiword
Also: Gee, what’s Pocket Word (now Mobile Word/Mobile Word) doing on Pocket PCs?
Comment by Mike Cane 06.18.05 @ 2:21 am