Microsoft is reportedly considering launching its own Windows 8 tablets in partnership with processor chip manufacturer Texas Instruments and Taiwan-based OEMs/ODMS.
Microsoft hopes to emulate Apple and Google by marketing devices honed for its own operating system.
In the past, Microsoft's success with its own hardware - Xbox 360, Zune, Kin smartphone and TV - has been mixed; only the Xbox 360 turned out to be a unqualified success, with the Kin smartphone being a veritable disaster.
Microsoft is proceeding with its tablet plans cautiously, keeping a low profile, a source tells Digitimes.
Microsoft demonstrated the next generation of Windows, internally code-named "Windows 8," for the first time on June 1 at the D9 Conference in Rancho Palos Verdes, California.
Windows 8 targets PCs as well as tablet computers; its interface is designed and optimized for touch, but works equally well with a mouse and keyboard.
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