Microsoft’s answer to the iPad still in pieces

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SEATTLE: Instead of unveiling an elegant response to the iPad, Microsoft came to the tech industry’s premier gadget show with a collection of exposed computer guts, news about microchips and a shallow preview of yet another Windows.

The uninspiring performance served as a reminder that the world’s largest software maker remains years from a serious entry into the Tablet craze, raising more doubts about whether Microsoft Corp will ever be able to grab a meaningful piece of this fast-growing segment.