Do we actually need dedicated “business tablets”?

At its Worldwide Partner Conference last week, Microsoft’s management seemed to making a shift towards position Windows tablets as being about business. There was lots of talk about “powerful workhorse” devices, and similar ideas.

(Although the just-announced re-org of Microsoft ["One Microsoft"] puts a big emphasis on non-business use — but that story is developing.)

This makes sense for Microsoft. As a company, they’ve always been more comfortable in the business market, and it’s certainly tr...