Windows Surface

[d000hg]

For coding on the move, I'd have thought a Macbook Air or ultrabook would be a better compromise of performance/usability/portability personally - have you tried any of them out?

[LatteLiberal]

I have a feeling this will be the start of the end for Microsoft. Too little to late has never been a more appropriate phrase for Microsoft and the mobile/tablet market. Apple and Google had sewn up the market long ago and this abortive effort by the behemoth can only be seen as a desperate last effort after their failings with the Kin (ha), the Zune (ha ha), Windows 7 mobile (ha ha ha). The sales figures will be released shorty and the jettisoning of the top man a few weeks ago is a hint that those figures will be pathetically low. The iPad mini and the Nexus on the other hand will become ubiquitous (christmas gifts), and herald a new dawn in personal computing.

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The iPad mini and the Nexus on the other hand will become ubiquitous (christmas gifts), and herald a new dawn in personal computing.

I don't think the iPad mini will become ubiquitous by Christmas. I can't find the two I need for love nor money (and that includes being extra nice to the two apple store managers I know).

[LatteLiberal]

I don't think the iPad mini will become ubiquitous by Christmas. I can't find the two I need for love nor money (and that includes being extra nice to the two apple store managers I know).

The fact you can't find them, would for me, be a indication that they are selling unbelievably well.

[VectraMan]

For coding on the move, I'd have thought a Macbook Air or ultrabook would be a better compromise of performance/usability/portability personally - have you tried any of them out?

WHS. Each to their own of course, but I can't imagine being able to do any useful work on a 10" tablet with ZX81 keyboard. My 15" laptop is my main development machine, and I don't have any trouble lugging that around when I need to.

[VectraMan]

I have a feeling this will be the start of the end for Microsoft. Too little to late has never been a more appropriate phrase for Microsoft and the mobile/tablet market. Apple and Google had sewn up the market long ago and this abortive effort by the behemoth can only be seen as a desperate last effort after their failings with the Kin (ha), the Zune (ha ha), Windows 7 mobile (ha ha ha). The sales figures will be released shorty and the jettisoning of the top man a few weeks ago is a hint that those figures will be pathetically low. The iPad mini and the Nexus on the other hand will become ubiquitous (christmas gifts), and herald a new dawn in personal computing.

Microsoft already aren't as dominant as they once were. But in your list of failed products also remember there was the XBox; all the experts predicted MS had come too late and could never succeed in the games console market. They also came late to the internet, and after a few years had the dominant browser.

It's certainly interesting times. Of course for us software engineers, having several different incompatible platforms just means more work and money for us.