Microsoft unveils Surface tablet

19 Jun 2012, 9:45 am   -   Source: AAP, SBS
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Microsoft's new release will have to make up for lost time.

Microsoft's new release will have to make up for lost time.

Microsoft has unveiled a Surface tablet computer as the technology titan steps in with its own hardware to take on Apple's market-ruling iPads.

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Microsoft has unveiled a Surface tablet computer as the technology titan steps in with its own hardware to take on Apple's market-ruling iPads.

Microsoft chief executive Steve Ballmer described the iPad challenger as a tablet that "works and plays" when he showed it off at a press conference in Los Angeles.

Surface is also the name of poster-size touch screen computers that Microsoft has pitched to the business market for use in restaurants, shops, bars and other venues.

The tablet is based on the Windows 8 Operating System, USA Today reports.

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