The surface pro didn&#x27;t do anything new at all. It was windows for tablets with decent industrial design (great design aside from the keyboards). It&#x27;s not like Apple hadn&#x27;t dicked around with keyboard covers et al since back in the Newton days. This isn&#x27;t a question of who did hardware feature X first but who did user feature Y right. The jury is out but when I went to a Microsoft store ready to buy a maxed out surface pro, five minutes with the keyboard and microsoft&#x27;s horrible UI designs turned me off. (I see in the MS office demo that they&#x27;ve removed some cruft but still don&#x27;t design decent touch UIs. )