Am I the only one who cringes at the notion of buying anything from Microsoft? In the 90's, if you mentioned the "Evil Empire," everyone knew who you were talking about. Today, Microsoft is, to quote Steve Jobs, "Largely irrelevant."<p>The Surface is a convertible tablet pc (like the one my gf was smashing out of frustration a couple nights ago), flattened by 10^5 atmospheres of pressure to 1cm thickness.<p>Let sleeping evil empires rest.
They really are doing some cool stuff, the author mentions a few things. I'd also mention the stuff they are doing in software. ASP.NET MVC, F#, hell even good old C# is just getting better and better. There is plenty of room for Google, Apple and Microsoft to all create cool stuff.