In Microsoft's lab was a bunch of unfinished work on voice recognition and handwriting recognition. In Apple's was a complete port of their main OS to an ARM p

In Microsoft's lab was a bunch of unfinished work on voice recognition and handwriting recognition. In Apple's was a complete port of their main OS to an ARM platform ready and tested for years. The board should have been called to account why the NT kernel hadn't been continually tested on ARM, leaving them to build WP7 on CE (but making it incompatible with CE apps due to the off screen buffer replacing GWES/Gdi) and the abandon the product. Surface looks great, the public stance is Ballmer owning it to the shareholders, failure should come with consequences at that level.