Microsoft Is Launching an iPad Killer [REPORT]

We already had our invitation to Microsoft's "major" announcement in Hollywood next Monday -- an Apple-style event so hush-hush, there isn't even a location yet.

Now rumors are starting to coalesce around the thing being launched: a touchscreen tablet, manufactured by Microsoft itself, running on Windows RT (a version of Windows 8), intended to rival Apple's iPad.

Hollywood blog The Wrap cites "an individual with knowledge of the company", who claims the software giant would be "making a foray into a new hardware category that would put the company in direct competition with rival Apple" -- tablets.

This would hardly be the first time Microsoft has tried its hand at a tablet dev…
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