Microsoft’s new tablet ‘no threat to the iPad’

Microsoft’s new tablet computers are no threat to Apple’s iPad, given the lack of enthusiasm among developers to create applications that run on the new Windows operating system, analysts said.

Microsoft has introduced its Surface line of tablets, taking on Apple as well as its own hardware partners including Samsung and Hewlett-Packard.

Chief executive Steve Ballmer was on hand to announce the tablet, calling it part of a “whole new family of devices” the company is developing.