{"id":299102,"date":"2010-02-09T17:15:47","date_gmt":"2010-02-09T22:15:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jkontherun.com\/?p=56614"},"modified":"2010-02-09T17:15:47","modified_gmt":"2010-02-09T22:15:47","slug":"tablet-pc-team-blog-shuts-down","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/299102","title":{"rendered":"Tablet PC Team Blog Shuts Down"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<p>There has been a lot of talk lately about the Microsoft Tablet PC and that fruity pad thing. The banter has rekindled the regret I&#8217;ve felt over the years due to the lack of public support for the Tablet from the folks who created it. The fact that Microsoft never made a big marketing push to show the world what the platform could uniquely do has long been fodder for long-winded discussions at Tablet PC enthusiast sites.<\/p>\n<p>When Microsoft rolled the Tablet PC bits into Windows Vista it was clear the end of the Tablet PC as a unique product line was near. Tablet talk became Windows feature talk, and the technology became just a small part of the entire Windows landscape. Then Windows 7 rolled out and Tablet became more of a touch thing, instead of a pen thing. This made it clear to me that the end was near, and something I ran across today on the <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.technet.com\/tabletpc\/archive\/2010\/02\/05\/where-to-find-tablet-pc-blog-posts.aspx\">Microsoft Tablet PC team blog<\/a> drove that belief home.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/jkontherun.files.wordpress.com\/2010\/02\/tablet-pc-team-dissolves.jpeg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\"  title=\"Tablet PC Team Dissolves\" src=\"http:\/\/jkontherun.files.wordpress.com\/2010\/02\/tablet-pc-team-dissolves.jpeg?w=500&#038;h=124\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"124\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-56613\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The assimilation of the one major unique technology from Microsoft into the bowels of the OS is complete. 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The banter has rekindled the regret I&#8217;ve felt over the years due to the lack of public support for the Tablet from the folks who created it. The fact that Microsoft never made a big marketing push [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":686,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-299102","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/299102","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/686"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=299102"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/299102\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=299102"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=299102"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=299102"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}