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So far they've only lost money with Surface. And I remember they were saying to their partners initially "don't worry, this is just a reference product - it's l

So far they've only lost money with Surface. And I remember they were saying to their partners initially "don't worry, this is just a reference product - it's like not like we're actually trying to compete with you or anything like that!" - yet they're now at the third iteration.

pjmlp 12y ago
I hope they succeed eventually. Microsoft has the right product for those of us that would like rather have a laptop capabilities with the size and battery duration of a tablet. iOS and Android ecosystems require a big brother computer for proper application development, whereas on the Surface I can change to desktop mode and run Visual Studio with the full SDK. This is what has putted me off to buy a Android Asus Transform a few years ago and buy a Asus Netbook with Ubuntu instead.
- mandeepj 12y ago
  how about using an android VM on windows desktop\laptop ? I tried once but never did any app development
  - pjmlp 12y ago
    How does it have anything to do with using a tablet with laptop capabilities feature wise? What you are suggesting is no different from using the Android SDK on a desktop/laptop, which by definition isn't a tablet.
    - mandeepj 12y ago
      no, i am not suggesting anything. I just had a question so I asked. Sorry, if i was not clear.
- windowsworkstoo 12y ago
  Replaced my Latitude 6230 with a Dell Venue Pro 11...which i am now using as my primary dev machine. love it, Dell took the surface and imrpoved it in several ways, notably the dock/keyboard options.