[Galaxy Note 10.1 General] stuartv:
Are you saying that the Surface Pro won't support flipping it to Portrait mode, like any Android tablet can do? I'm thinking a (roughly) 10" tall screen whould show a typical form just about as well as a 17" to 19" monitor. Of course, if the form does have the form factor of a sheet of paper, some side to side scrolling might be required. But, I fill out Web-based forms on my tablet all the time with no trouble - and without having to deal with 4pt fonts. You have not yet made any (rational) case for your claim that a Surface Pro will be useless for the same task an Android tablet works just fine for.

Heck, a friend of mine just showed me his new Win7 laptop last weekend. It supports pinch-to-zoom from the built-in trackpad, so you can, for example, make a form on the screen as big as you want and scroll around to fill it all in. Just like you can on an Android tablet. And that is with Windows 7!

Will your Surface-bashing and random, unsubstantiated, conclusions, stated as facts ("no Fortune 1000 companies will buy these", "no college students will buy these") ever end??

"The ONLY real benefit of Windows over Android is access to full MS Office"

That is so ridiculous as to be laughable! What are you, 12 years old? Do you have any actual experience working with actual paying customers and seeing what they use their computers for??

Here is one fact for you: Most college students have laptops. And, if you read up on how people are using their Notes, you'll notice there are a fair number of people who use them for taking notes in class. So, when your hypothesized college student is deciding whether to spend money on a laptop that they can use for their school work and a tablet they can use to take notes on, versus buying a Surface Pro, which they could use for both, are you really so sure they're all going to choose to buy a laptop AND a tablet? You did say "no college students".

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As a matter of fact, I AM a businessperson. CTO of my current company and formerly CTO of the company I started in '99 (which is still in business and I am still part owner of). And I have made my living for the last 25 years developing commercial software. And I am looking forward to getting a Surface Pro as soon as they are available. It will not replace my laptop (which IS a desktop replacement). I won't use it for doing software development on. But I expect I will use it for most everything else. Reviewing docs and spreadsheets and marking them up while on a plane? For sure! Web surfing and email? For sure! Media consumption while traveling? For sure! Taking notes in meetings? For sure! Remoting into other systems for various tasks? For sure!

Other businesses? You give them a choice of $700 for a 64GB iPad or $900 for a 64GB Surface Pro? And the Pro eliminates all their issues with application compatibility? Eliminates the security issues with the iPad and lets them stick to a pure Windows/Active Directory security model? Yep. I'm pretty sure a lot of them are going to choose the Surface Pro. And a lot of the executives who are being provided a laptop and have their choice are going to pick a Pro with a keyboard to be their company-provided laptop, too.

I AM thinking. You are not. Thinking that a company would have to change their legacy forms in order for somebody to fill it out on a Surface Pro is "not thinking".

Stating, as a fact, that Windows 8 "will be a failure" is BS. Plain and simple. It may turn out that way, certainly. But, I'd be willing to bet it won't, and you certainly have no way of knowing that to support making that statement as a fact.

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When you can zoom the whole screen, why would you need to resize an individual form? See my previous post about my friend's Win7 laptop.

NOW, YOU try to THINK instead of letting the old limitations of Windows, that you are familiar with, draw you into spouting off claims about what you can and cannot do with a Surface Pro, which you've never even seen in person.