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In the last century, while Steve Jobs was anguishing over the look of a bevel on the Macintosh, Bill Gates, rocking back and forth, figured out how to achieve world domination for Windows. Gates handily won, applying his business-friendly, partner-with-PC-makers formula to render Apple a bit player. Even today, Microsoft has more than 90 percent market share of desktops, compared …

Specs have surfaced for a 7-inch Microsoft tablet dubbed Xbox Surface, which looks to work with a second ‘stationary computing device’. The mysterious specification sheet appeared on Shifted2u, with additional information cropping up on Liveside.net. The leaks detail an Xbox tablet, and come shortly ahead of a ‘major’ Microsoft announcement this evening. The ‘Tablet Computing Device’ mentioned in the spec …