This is an interesting article, and I think it's the product of microsoft marketing.

After the lukewarm sales of the surface last fall, I bet microsoft would be keen to stock stores with less surface pros on release to provoke articles like this. After glancing at this article title, the first thing I thought was "Maybe there might be something good about the surface that I had overlooked?".

It's a bit of a stretch, but isn't unreasonable for a good sales team.