Yesterday, Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer almost embarrassingly showed of the new “slate PCs”. It’s almost as though, when they heard Apple was releasing a tablet this month, they quickly got HP to load some software on the slate so he could show people that it exists.

Here’s a “promo” video created for the slate. I’m guessing the HP marketing team quickly put this together at Microsoft’s request.

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