The (basic?) ARM version actually looks pretty good. It's just that apart from XBOX (and mice I suppose), MS doesn't have a successful track record with hardware.

I do have an issue with MS's last-minute launch and muddled/fragmented Windows tablet strategy, but I'm hopeful this thing is going to do reasonably well. Apple needs some competition and as consumers we need to see some new original ideas. Apple continues to slowly iterate and Google continues to slowly regurgitate. MS seems to be doing something new - and something they in fact pioneered and put on the miss of the tech crowd in the first place (touch computing in the large-scale Surface product).