On Monday, Microsoft revealed Surface, their new tablet running Windows 8. I want one -- depending on what it costs.
Microsoft's Steves Ballmer and Sinofsky made the announcement at a mystery event in Los Angeles and made it clear that Surface fixes what is wrong with today's tablets, hitting hard on some of the same problems I have with them. They seem to be designed with arbitrary criteria separate the needs of real business users. Sure, everyone loves using tablets, but everyone also runs into their limitations, mostly surrounding documents. Dealing with real documents, and even with short stuff like e-mail, is a series of compromises and hacks (sometimes elegant hacks, like this Logitech keyboard for the iPad).
Surface will be a "no compromise" device. It will, say the Steves, be a great tablet and a great document system.
