> The surface RT was targeted at Consumers There's the problem - it's not actually targeted at anybody properly. It's a business tablet (office pre-installed,

> The surface RT was targeted at Consumers There's the problem - it's not actually targeted at anybody properly. It's a business tablet (office pre-installed, heavily marketed with its keyboard and flip stand, all the ads show chic business people in suits dancing around). But it can't join a domain, won't run the line-of-business apps people actually need, doesn't support VBA (so your excel sheet will load but if it is at all interesting, it won't work), and the built-in office is not actually licensed for commercial use, so businesses who care about the fine details of that sort of thing can't actually use it anyway. Ok, so its a consumer tablet. But it's not got essential things like a good gmail app (didn't even have outlook when it shipped), youtube appp, it sucks for viewing photos you plug in on a USB drive, can't run Chrome, has (or had) few games worth running and has a confusing new UI that is hard to figure out, so playing with it in the store usually results in frustration. It's half awesome for each of its audiences, but its got showstoppers for both of them. It's a true first generation product, and if there was time and room for the second generation it could be awesome. But Haswell is here and the OEMs have no patience for waiting around for RT to improve when they can be selling something that actually meets everyone's needs.