Each week Ross Rubin contributes Switched On, a column about consumer technology.
At the launch of the new iPad - superior for video chat, group presentations, and cutting cake -- Apple didn't miss a few opportunities to rub salt in the open air vents of Microsoft's tablet efforts. Apple noted that sales of the iPad have exceeded those of every other tablet PC ever sold, and that Microsoft (along with other competitors) were chasing doomed strategies that extended outmoded models.
Microsoft has been clear that it will continue to use its "desktop" operating system - Windows - rather than its mobile o
