LONDON: Taiwanese computer maker Acer is putting off the launch of tablets using Microsoft's new Windows RT operating systemto give itself time to see how Microsoft's own Surface tablet fares.
The world's No. 4 PC vendor by shipments initially planned to roll out Windows RT tablets based on ARM chips early next year. However, the launch of Microsoft's tablet last week and the mixed reviews it has drawn has prompted Acer to wait and see until at least the second quarter of 2013.
"Originally we had a very aggressive plan to come out very early next year but because of Surface, our R&D development doesn't stop, but we are much more cautious," Acer President Jim Wong told Reuters on Tuesday.
"Originally our plan was Q1, but now I don't think it will be earlier than Q2," Wong said on the sidelines of a presentation of Acer's new line of Windows 8 touchscreen notebooks and tablets.
Acer was one of the first companies to criticise Microsoft for moving into the computer hardware business and competing with its partners' devices.
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