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Old 13th April 2013
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But could this strategy backfire for Microsoft? When they first announced the Surface tablet, the conspiracy theorist in me speculated it would be another vaporware, devised to make Windows 8 look cool (as in the ads), thus driving sales for their bread-and-butter OS. The tablet would be delayed, and never have to be produced! Well, I was wrong, there is a Surface, but maybe it will backfire: Windows 8 might make the Surface look uncool ... and it will end up being effectively vaporware.
If I remember rightly, they partly blew it with the Surface because the hardware was ridiculous. Maybe I'm remembering it wrong, or it was only the deluxe model, but it sounded like a "gamer's laptop" put into a tablet form factor, as in it was extremely heavy and hot, as well as expensive.
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