More like a smaller MacAir - with bad screen quality (I heard 1080p is the max on these things, low end stock will be 720p - that ain't Retina we are talking). It looks like it will run Windows RT/ARM when it first comes out which is crap.
No real release date - no pricing....
I wonder how the rest of the Windows hardware world feels - Microsoft building hardware - where do they come up with these things (
remember the Windows Zune anyone????). The big boy manufacturers (Dell, HP, etc) aren't going to be happy... at all. Watch them push Android over Windows for their future 'tablet' devices, more so then they are now. Google must be ecstatic with Microsoft's decision to delve into the tablet market this way.
Oh John L. - the Apple dictation feature works great on the iPad - really amazing with third party too - like Facebook and Twitter.