Start menu adds a couple of other screen gestures. A swipe from the bottom can bring up a contextual menu. A swipe from the top will, depending on the app, bring up other contextual menu options. All of this is intuitive and even fun to use. The more you do it, the more natural it becomes. I particularly enjoyed using the keyboard and then touching the screen to quickly switch back and forth between activities - -- I could do this all day long. Keyboarding Microsoft is not being shy about pitching Surface as a keyboard-friendly device. Apple has never, to my recollection, advertised the iPad with a keyboard attached, even though they built a dock and keyboard for the very first iPad. The Surface is more explicitly a productivity device. Microsoft told me they made design decisions based on the fact that they wanted it to work with a full-sized keyboard and touchpad mouse. The Surface and Touch Cover is a true technology marriage. From the special channel in the Surface to the tiny, powerful magnets on the Touch Cover, these are two parts that are designed to work perfectly together. By and large they do. Microsoft provided me with both the 3mm thick Touch Cover, which comes in a variety of colors. As with everything else about the Surface, Microsoft poured a ton of R&D into this cover. They developed their own blend of polyurethane material, used special lasers to carve out the white letters (there's a sheet