Over the last couple of months, speculations about any plans about Microsoft seem to come true later on. In March, Business Insider cited that by June Microsoft would demo tablets running Windows 8. It also cited that it would also bring some elements of Windows Phone 7 to the platform. Microsoft did not give any comment on this, but later on earlier this week, Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer announced before developers at a conference in Japan that Microsoft is planning to outline details surrounding windows 8 and Microsoft’s tablet strategy pretty soon.

Microsoft should act fast to do something so that it could also get into the tablet market because Apple’s iPad occupied about 84% of the tablet market in 2010 which was followed by android’s 14.2% market share according to research firm Gartner. For this year, Gartner states that Apple’s share will decline to 68.7%, followed by Android with 19.9% Gartner also suggests that in 2015, 85% of the tablet space between Apple’s tablets and Android-based devices will be occupied by them.