{"id":816,"date":"2010-07-25T21:10:39","date_gmt":"2010-07-25T21:10:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/refraction.co.uk\/blog\/?p=816"},"modified":"2010-07-25T21:16:16","modified_gmt":"2010-07-25T21:16:16","slug":"hps-windows-7-slate-tablet-lives-on","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/refraction.co.uk\/blog\/2010\/07\/25\/hps-windows-7-slate-tablet-lives-on\/","title":{"rendered":"HP’s Windows 7 Slate Tablet lives on"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"hp-slate\"<\/a>This is interesting, according to Engadget<\/a> HP\u2019s<\/a> much publicised Windows 7 based state tablet isn\u2019t in fact dead as has been reported.<\/p>\n

Personally I think this is great news.\u00a0 I\u2019m a long term fan of the slate having had one of HP\u2019s old slates the TC1100<\/a> for years.\u00a0 It\u2019s a great bit of kit but Win7 really challenges its 2004 specs.<\/p>\n

According to Engadget HP are planning to launch the new tablet later this year targeted at the enterprise market.\u00a0 This makes a lot of sense to me. The iPad has the consumer world all wrapped up but in business (currently) it\u2019s more of a novelty to anyone that needs to do more than email.\u00a0 A Win7 based tablet that has a pen as well as touch and can run apps like OneNote would be very welcome.\u00a0<\/p>\n

What\u2019s more it gives HP a good product on which to take some market share from Motion Computing<\/a>, who have been doing quite well selling Windows based slate tablets into industries like healthcare and engineering.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Of course there have also been rumours of a HP tablet based on Palms WebOS, which of course HP now owns.\u00a0 While that would definitely be an option in the consumer world I\u2019m not sure businesses would find it all that attractive.\u00a0 The reason I say this is that currently WebOS has next to no security built into the OS, at least none that is compatible with the Exchange ActiveSync (EAS) security policies used by Microsoft and Google (see this article<\/a> for more info).\u00a0 So in that sense a twin platform might make good sense for HP.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

HP’s Windows 7 based slate tablet lives on as an enterprise product, possibly alongside a WebOS tablet. This successor to the TC1100 could pose a treat to Motion Computings place in the Windows tablet market.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[423,53,412,426,432,192,431,179],"class_list":["post-816","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-tech","tag-exchange-activesync","tag-hp","tag-ipad","tag-palm","tag-slate","tag-tablet","tag-webos","tag-windows-7","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/refraction.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/816","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/refraction.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/refraction.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/refraction.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/refraction.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=816"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/refraction.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/816\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":819,"href":"https:\/\/refraction.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/816\/revisions\/819"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/refraction.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=816"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/refraction.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=816"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/refraction.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=816"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}