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Does drive home the point that making consumer products is really hard? I mean their Surface, phone business seems down but B2B(Azure) is thriving[0]. Comparing that to Apple's business wouldn't be all that fair?

[0]http://venturebeat.com/2017/01/26/microsoft-reports-26-1-bil...

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Surface is only down 2%, practically flat, which is actually pretty impressive considering the Surface Pro 4 and Surface Book are over a year old and expecting refreshes soon.

From the look of what is on display in consumer stores across a few European countries I visit regularly, I am betting they will wipe out the lower segment of hybrid tablets and netbooks.

Nowadays the majority of those devices on display are running Windows 10, not Android or OEM variant of GNU/Linux.

Maybe. But after having used a Win10 tablet for a while i find that the whole "app" side of things feels bolted on.

If you want to do some serious file manipulations you invariably has to drop back to the age old file explorer and the related Win32 file picker window. And those are anything but fun to operate via a touch screen.

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