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What I don't understand is this: If Windows 8 was designed so much for touch that even the desktop version of it shows a touch interface by default, why don't

• ygra 14y ago
  They do, on the Surface Pro. It just comes out a little later, presumably to not clobber hardware vendors' sales. Microsoft has to be very careful in that market since so far they have been (largely) only a supplier of operating systems and software while others built the hardware. Now they risk alienating their former partners (and large customers). So essentially they let Dell, Lenovo, HP, ... have a first go at building and selling tablets that can run the “normal” Windows 8. Surface then is just a reference implementation of sorts – it needs to be good and compelling and show off the platform particularly well. But it shouldn't make big sales (and the price point will probably be chosen to reflect that too) to avoid bad blood between the usual manufacturers and MS.