Microsoft displays Twenty Windows-based Tablets to choose from

Windows tablets offer consumers the power of a PC in a tablet. They are also the only tablets which allow multiple user accounts, multitasking and come pre-installed with Microsoft Windows Home and Office 2013. Best of all, all Windows tablets are equipped with all-purpose ports that can connect to the TV via HDMI, the Internet via a dongle or a keyboard/printer/mouse/headphone via a USB port.

20 different Windows-based tablets which are on offer from eight of Microsoft’s original equipment manufacturing partners, namely Acer, Asus, Dell, HP, Lenovo, Panasonic and Lava were on display recently at a hotel in Delhi.

Since its introduction in mid-2010, the tablet category has witnessed huge growth in demand and shipments. Currently, the hand-held segment leads with an impressive annual growth of 629%. Consumer usage patterns around technology are constantly evolving and what people are doing with technology today is vastly different from what we have seen a few short years ago. Given the ease with which tablets enable convergence, the popularity of this device comes as no surprise.

But what are consumers using tablets for? Top of the list is social networking and messaging. Students use the device largely for education and entertainment, while young professionals tend to use it more for connectivity. And interestingly, 20% of tablet owners use it as their computing device. That goes to show how for technology users the world of work and world of play are meshing into each other. There are now no hard lines between personal and professional activities and consumers are looking for devices that are flexible and services that follow them everywhere.

A big part of using a tablet for work and play are the apps. The apps make the experience rich and useful. With Windows, customers can choose from 140,000 apps in the Windows Store and over 200,000 apps in the Windows Phone Store.