This year, prepare for a wider range of manufacturers to join the Windows 8 brigade, offering simple slates alongside various hybrid designs.

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It might be awkward, painful, and embarrassing to get real about how we can work for ourselves, but that standpoint can take a paradox like our little hybrid mystery and transform it into a simple feature of reality.

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Universal offers a hybrid of the clunky industry-standard teaching pendant and a simple teaching-style point and click programming environment which enables it to be quickly trained.

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