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Story: Microsoft's Surface: A deeper look

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Expensive gimmick or real innovation

I am always a sucker for something new and flashy - and while Surface might turn out to be another Microsoft hardware white elephant - it's heartening to some degree to see Redmond sticking its neck out slightly with something a bit wacky and blue-sky. Despite the best efforts to inject some hip back into Microsoft with the Zune - and more recently the Zune 2 - I think the more of these genuinely exciting technologies Microsoft can get behind the better. They have got money to burn and its better spent on this than on anti-competiton lawyers.

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