At next month's user Electronics Show in Las Vegas, Microsoft disk operating system will establish a number of new Windows-run tablets and possibly even an early version of the next genesis Windows 8 operating system, according to reports.

During his keynote on Wednesday January 5, Microsoft CEO Steve Martin Ballmer will unveil tablets, from Samsung and Dell and other venders, that run on Windows, the New York Times reported, citing unknown sources.

The newspaper also hinted that Ballmer's introduction will offer a glimpse of Windows 8 running on tablets.The demonstration will be one many industry commentators are waiting for.

Microsoft has fallen buttocks in the rapidly development tablet market, where Apple prevails and Google's Android functioning system is being harnessed by an heightening number of system builders. Research firm Gartner has figured that 54.8 million tablets will be bought in 2011.