iPad, Android to outsell Windows tablets by 10 to 1

It seems that Microsoft just can’t catch a break. With rather dismal performance by Windows Phone 7 in the smartphone market, it seems that even their Windows operating system for tablets are performing rather badly compared to iPad’s and Android devices.

The team that performed the study believed that Windows PCs would grow at a slightly faster rate – 81.5 percent versus 72.1 percent, but because it was starting from so far behind that Apple and Google would have a combined average size ten times that of Windows-led PC tablets through to about 2015. They also estimate about 262.1 million iPad-class tablets could be shipping by that year where else 45.2 million PC-level tablets would be around at the same time, still a factor of almost six to one.

On the upside it seems that Windows tablets had more productivity applications available for it as it was meant for work and that would be the edge that they will have against the iPad and Android devices, assuming that those two don’t start catering to the enterprise market. Windows 8 might be Microsoft’s answer with a native tablet UI but we will only be seeing that come 2012 so until then iPad’s and Android will have plenty of time to further increase the gap between them and Windows.