Microsoft unveils tablet seeking to rival Apple, Amazon

Microsoft Corp. announced its tablet device, called Surface, at a media event in Los Angeles on Monday, the Seattle Business Journal reports. It will compete with Apple Inc.?s? ? Apple Inc. Latest from The Business Journals Microsoft unveils new Surface tabletImpulseSave brings instant gratification to saving with new mobile appMicrosoft surfaces in tablet war Follow this company iPad and Amazon.com?s Kindle Fire.

The new Microsoft Surface tablet will have a built-in keyboard and trackpad as part of its cover and will have Microsoft Office software built in. The tablet will be 10.6 inches wide and 9.3 mm thick, with a full 16:9 high definition display and micro-SD and USB 2.0.

The tablet will come with two versions of the Windows operating system, a 32-gigabyte Windows RT (formerly known as Windows ARM, a form of Windows manufacturers use to build the operating system into their own machines) version and a 64-gigabyte Windows 8 Pro version.

No details on pricing or release date were given.

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