CNET is reporting on comments made by Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer today at the company's conference for financial analysts revealing that the company's is "coming full guns" with Windows-powered tablet computers, and that Apple sold more iPad's than he would have liked.

"They'll be shipping as soon as they are ready," Ballmer said, offering few details on the products, which he said will come from partners, not Microsoft itself. "It is job one urgency. No one is sleeping at the switch."

Speaking to financial analysts, Ballmer said the goal is "not just to deliver products, but to deliver products that people want to buy."

As for Apple and the iPad, Ballmer said, "they've sold certainly more than I'd like them to have sold."

Ballmer revealed that the Windows-based tablets will be coming with Intel processors, and running a flavor of Windows 7, rather than Windows Phone 7, the company's upcoming mobile operating system due for release later this year. The first tablets are reportedly going to appear later this year.