Microsoft tablet OS not coming until fall 2012, if ever?

Just for context: At that point, Apple’s iPad 3 will have been shipping for nearly six months as will second generation Android and WebOS tablets.

To their credit, Microsoft is getting faster (it took them more than three years to ship Windows Phone 7 after the introduction of the iPhone, they might need one year less to ship a tablet OS).

If this is the case then any Microsoft tablet is going to be instantly Zuneified. While they may be attractive to some consumers, it's too little too late.

When they did make a tablet OS 10 years ago, nobody wanted it. They have a lot of things to unlearn. It's gotta take some time.

They didn't make a tablet OS - they just added a wacom pen digitizer to some laptops instead of a mouse.

And before you flame me for being anti-whatever, I developed software commercially as a contractor for HP for 'windows for pen' in 1993, and owned and liked 2 Tablet PCs during 2002-2006, so I have a pretty clear idea of what they were.