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Originally Posted by Manic!
Microsoft Surface combines the best of a laptop with the best of a tablet. It does a lot more than an I pad.
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I think it's the exact opposite. It's a jack-of-all-trades, master of none.
As a tablet it's inferior to the iPad 3. As a laptop it's inferior to countless options out there. I don't know how taking two sub-par products and combining them gives you a superior product.
I've gone over Microsoft's developer site for RT and as I've said before, it's not easy to take an existing program and port it over to RT. New software designed for Metro can be compiled for both RT and x86 Windows, but that doesn't do anything to make it easy to get existing software working. People are going to be very confused and upset when they realize RT will not run any of your current Windows software, despite being branded as "Windows".
Then again, it's not full Office and is missing a few features. One deal breaker for me (and work) is the lack of macros. So many corporate documents we use have macros which means Office RT is completely useless for us.
Try Googling for Windows RT Apps and see what you come up with. I did and the lack of software available (or listed anywhere) for a tablet that's due out in a few days is scary. Unless everyone is under some non-disclosure agreement and can't announce until the 26th. But I doubt that - I think there's going to be a dearth of software for RT at launch.
A piece of hardware, no matter how good it is on paper, is useless without software.