<A target="_blank" href="http://www.smh.com.au/digital-life/tablets/tablets-might-be-a-flash-in-the-pan-microsoft-global-chief-strategy-officer-20110330-1cfv2.html">Microsoft's global chief research and strategy officer, Craig Mundie,</A> may have offered the real reason behind the lack of a Windows tablet operating system when he declared the devices a fad.