Surface is already irrelevant, because Microsoft has decided that to placate Windows OEMs it won't be sold in retail stores. It doesn't matter that Microsoft ma

Surface is already irrelevant, because Microsoft has decided that to placate Windows OEMs it won't be sold in retail stores. It doesn't matter that Microsoft may have scoured the earth for the purest metals with which to craft its case if the average person is never going to encounter one in the real world. Microsoft's real problem that Windows OEMs are incapable of building a decent tablet. Surface does nothing to incentivize OEMs to build better tablets, and crippling the sales campaign ensures it won't marginalize the OEMs either. For their part, the OEMs have already scoffed at Surface and promised to go on with business as usual.