Is it sour grapes? Quite a few people would characterize it that style. In an interview Monday morning on CNBC, Bill Gates, Chairman of Microsoft, described (embedded video) the Surface tablet considering that the tablet that iPad users really, really would like.

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Last quarter, Apple sold 19.5 million iPads and iPad minis (the company does not break the actual segments). Meanwhile, the world's top PC maker, HP, sold 11am.7 million PCs, according to Gartner.

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