The more I read about Steve Ballmer’s approach to things Microsoft doesn’t have a chance with, the more I believe he’s treading water. Take the fact that he once thought the idea of the iPhone was a joke. Clearly, he was wrong in so many directions it’s almost sad. Today, he’s clueless about the iPad.

Ars is reporting that Ballmer and Microsoft as a whole, live in a world without reality of what people will want. This is likely why Microsoft is constantly late to the game with any real innovation I suppose. Worse is the idea of using a desktop based OS for a tablet. Seriously, if Microsoft launches a tablet with this in play, they might as well give up on anything but desktop computers as it will prove they are beyond clueless about how a tablet computer works with fingers, not a stylus.