I was going to write a "my first post" post, but then thought, nah let's just jump right in!
I don’t think I have been this excited about Microsoft since the initial introduction of Windows Phone a little of two years ago. This past week however blows that excitement out of the water. Between the announcements of the Surface and Windows Phone 8, I couldn’t avoid the flood of Microsoft news even if I wanted to.
In particular, I am most excited to get my hands on a Surface tablet later this year. As someone who has owned all three iPads and having seen the slew of nondescript Android tablets hit the market over the last couple of years, I have to admit the tablet category was starting to feel a bit tired. Sure there have been plenty of software enhancements and improvements, but form factors just have not changed. All due credit to Asus for the Transformer(s), but the idea of trucking around a heavy keyboard dock along with the tablet does not offer any compelling reason to use it over a higher powered, feature rich Ultrabook.
The Surface asserts not only Microsoft as a serious competitor and innovator in the tablet space, it also satisfies my desire for a pure software experience running on first party hardware where the software and hardware are married in a way that OEMs simply have not been able to achieve with previous versions of Windows. Of course all of us who are excited about the Surface are now posed with the ultimate question: RT or Pro?
