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Surface tension
The tech giant’s decision to make its own tabletcomputer is a bold gamble

“WITHIN five years, I predict it will be the most popular formof PC sold in America.” When Bill Gates spoke at a trade show in2002, the then chairman of Microsoft left nobody in doubt that whathis firm called the “tablet PC” would one day take the world ofpersonal computing by storm. His sense that an upheaval was comingwas spot on, but his timing wasn’t. Only when Apple launched itswildly popular iPad in 2010 did computing tablets at last take