Look for a wash of tinier Windows 8 tablets coming to stores over the next several months, proclaimed Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer at the company's Build 2013 conference today.
"We're going to see a proliferation of Windows small tablet devices over the course of the next several months," promised Ballmer during the Day 1 keynote.
More small Windows 8 tablets to come
Although Microsoft didn't announce a Surface Mini as one of the new smaller tablets, Ballmer did note that small W8 tabs won't be missing from Build.
"For the first time today, we'll really spend some time showing you small tablets running Windows.
"This small tablet form factor is very important. I wouldn't call them PCs, but there will be Windows small tablets. You'll see it, you'll touch it, you'll feel it."
While Ballmer and a sampling of executives talked specifically about smaller tablets, Ballmer ended the keynote with a more general pronouncement:
"We will sell hundreds of millions of windows devices this year," Ballmer said. "Windows phones, Windows tablets, Windows PCs."
Confidence is certainly not lacking with the CEO.
