Microsoft has winner - albeit a hidden one!
Windows RT will be a success for Microsoft, but not in the way people imagine.
The problem is that everyone is considering Windows RT from the perspective of Business or Personal use, as though that were all there is!
People, there is world outside of the office!
Think Retail and Industrial, Transport and Energy, Medical and Pharmaceutical, even Defence and Military! There are literally tens (if not hundreds) of millions of potential users who are screaming out for tablets, and for whom, what is in the market now, simply does not tick the boxes!
Android is fractured mess with hardware cycles measured in months, while the iPad is a “one size only” solution that is simply way too fragile for Industrial use!
There are already industrial and military-grade Windows RT Tablets that can withstand drops of six feet to concrete (on the screen!), are viewable in direct sunlight and are completely immersible water! Try that with an iPad!
That said, I’m sure the Surface will bomb.