Microsoft Tablet Surface: Attack on Apple iPad

Microsoft Surface is the Windows 8 hot-tablet, with the company from Redmond is also a piece of hardware manufacturers. So far, however, Microsoft has largely kept out of the hardware business in the computer field, apart from peripherals such as mice and keyboards. Basically, Microsoft has achieved with its own hardware conflicting results. While the Xbos and Kinetc are great successes, the production had to be set the iPod challenger, Zune after a few years back, the player would have been without ever having to buy outside the USA.

Surface starts with Microsoft a frontal attack on the iPad from Apple, but it is - apart from the other operating system with Metro-surface - certainly their own accents.Highlights of the Sun are not copied iPad like the retinal display, it provides Microsoft with the touch or type covers a very interesting version of a keyboard dock. The only three and five millimeters thick protective shells adhere magnetically to the display surface of the tablets. So far, so familiar from the iPad. Microsoft has these plastic grips but additionally equipped with a QWERTY keyboard, with which the tablet can be transformed into a netbook notbehelfsweise. Here, the keyboard docks magnetically to the tablet. Position and motion sensors in the cover ensure that only genuine key inputs are processed. Specifies the user simply hand on the pad or folded it back on the display will no longer run, the pressure pulses. Buyers can choose between Microsoft's tablet touch the thinner cover, on which the keys are just painted on and select the type cover with a little key travel. Real buttons provide protective cover but not both.