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Windows 8 Update: Steve Ballmer's 80-inch Windows 8 tablet

While it lacks the mobility usually associated with this class of device, there's an 80-inch tablet serving the head of Microsoft as a wallboard and as a substitute for other work-related gear. "He's got rid of his phone, he's got rid of his note paper," the company's vice president Frank Shaw told wired.co.uk. "It's his whiteboard, his email machine ... and it's a device we're going to sell."

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