Engadget reported that, to their surprise, the Win 7 HP Slate is still kicking. HP officially confirmed this morning that the product is still very much in the works. The outfits not sharing much, but a spokesperson from its Personal Systems group did tell us that theyre “in customer evaluations now and will make a determination soon on the next steps.”
You may recall that HP and Microsoft announced the product at CES and ever since it’s survival was under question. It is still no sealed as dead yet… but I have my reservation as to what kind of success such a tablet will have given that it runs Windows 7. The secret sauce of the iPad is iOS 4… a lean and mean OS made for touch devices. Windows 7 is far from lean… but it is for sure mean 
via HP confirms that Slate is still kicking, next steps being determined — Engadget.
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