Microsoft Surface

Microsoft Surface For most people, Microsoft is just one giant, successful company. Microsoft is so big that most people forget that it has a number of flat out failures that we simply don’t know about. But some we do. Some we really pull for and no... More

Microsoft Surface For most people, Microsoft is just one giant, successful company. Microsoft is so big that most people forget that it has a number of flat out failures that we simply don’t know about. But some we do. Some we really pull for and no matter how hard we try, it just wasn’t meant to be (I still love you Zune. ) One such failure was the tablet PC. Microsoft was way ahead of its time with tablet computing and although now the iPad has become synonymous with tablet computing, it was Microsoft that helped pave the way. Microsoft’s latest foray into the tablet world is called Surface and it’s a far cry from the tablets of old. To give a little history, PC’s had keyboards, which were borrowed from typewriters. Apparently, someone got the bright idea that pen-based computing would be fun, because the pen is a comfortable writing tool. (Never mind that you can type a hell of a lot faster than you can write, but that’s beside the point. ) By 1991, Microsoft had released “W Less