Microsoft's first stab at a tablet: Surface reviewed

With Surface, Microsoft is diving headlong into a new business model. Let's be blunt here: Redmond is going the Cupertino route. Microsoft is not merely writing the software. It's designing hardware to go with that software, and contracting manufacturers in the Far East to turn its designs into millions of units of real, shipping hardware, that Microsoft will be selling directly to customers.

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