How Microsoft REALLY reacted to iPad
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What you need to know Today is the tenth anniversary of iPad`s announcement. Steven Sinofsky was head of Windows for Microsoft at the time. He`s been tweeting his reaction from January 27, 2010. It was clear Apple was going after netbooks. Today marks the tenth anniversary of the very first iPad unveiling and it was a big day for Apple. But it was a big day for Microsoft, too. And that`s something driven home by the company`s former head of Windows, Steven Sinofsky. He`s been tweeting his thoughts from this day ten years ago and they make for interesting reading. In the weeks and months before the arrival of iPad, many had been discussing whether it would be a larger iPod touch or a touch-based Mac. Microsoft wondered that as well, but it fell heavily on the side of a Mac with a pen-based interface. After all, that`s exactly what Microsoft had been trying to sell for years. Why would Apple do anything any differently? Because it`s Apple, of course. 3/The success of iPhone (14...