Microsoft Surface, Will it kill the i-pad? Options

[Licentia Per Ori...]

So unless you have been hiding under a rock for the last couple of months you will know that Microsoft are planning to jump into the tablet space.

This is currently dominated by Apple.
Will Microsoft take apples crown?

many people are of the opinion that it's going to give apple a serious kicking, and will migrate more people to the microsoft eco-system, resulting in lower future sales of i-phones and i-pods to boot.

Personally i think it will do more, It has the capabilities to dominate the tablet market.

my reasoning is that.
1. It works at work.
I pad is great and that, but if you work in an office chances are you use windows there. You will use MS office,
The i-pad does not work well with Windows, The surface will be designed to work with it seamlessly.

2. It out specs the i-pad.
Microsoft are releasing two versions with the pro version packing an Ivy bridge i5!
It's a serious but of kit.

3. the keyboard.
Yea it's a tablet, but putting the keyboard on it.
(and crucially giving it away for free)
make the windows tablet a true contender for laptop replacement.
Even the biggest apple fan-boi out there will admit that the i-pad is good for consuming content (watching and reading things)
but is completely crap when it comes to creating content (like forum posts)

So what are your thoughts?
are Microsoft going to dominate in the hand-held market?
the i-phone 5 is launching, and no one is excited about it.
But the new Nokia phones are far more exciting,
and will having your PC, Tablet, Phone and Games console all operate on a single integrated eco system attract customers to Microsoft?

[Rukiri]

I prefer Unix and Linux systems and stopped caring for MS years ago, mainly because of no innovation and just a half baked product every single time... Look at the Windows 9X release, windows 98 SE was what MS wanted 9E to be, and Windows XP was technically the finished product of both ME and 2000 and also dropped dos(not..really the best thing they could have done as a terminal is always going to be more powerful than a Gui application.. A gui is not required).

And Windows 7 is what windows vista was supposed to be but I really did prefer Vista's taskbar a lot better.. the option to change icon size and just not group IS NOT THE SAME THING... Sorry just do not like the windows 7 SUPER BAR.

Apple has a much better foundation and a much less "buggy" product but any PC gamer will go ape shit and just lie to themselves thinking MS is god... However if Apple took the approach MS did back in the early 90s MS would be no where near as big as it is now and would probably be smaller than what Apple is now. I understand the premium but they could have let say HP, Toshiba, Sony, and some of the other High End PC OEM's sell the Mac OS on their machines and apple could still do what it is doing now.

Will the surface gain traction? Probably not and it will most certainly NOT dominate the market.

One thing Mac nor Windows will teach you is, is actually knowing how to use a computer. You know how to use a gui, not the computer itself. This is why I LOVE UNIX and Linux systems(except the newbie versions..) I do use a desktop gui but I'm mostly in my terminal and I use a very minimal desktop. OPENBOX!

This post has been edited by Rukiri: Sep 26 2012, 06:12 PM