Before you buy a Surface 2 with Windows 8.1
With the holidays fast approaching, many of us will want to purchase some cool tech toys such as tablets. Currently Microsoft is pushing their Surface 2 with Windows 8.1 tablets. Microsoft's current Windows strategy is misleading at the least and here's why. The Surface 2 cannot and will not completely replace your laptop. Why? Well that's because it cannot run regular Windows apps. The surface runs Windows 8 RT whereas a laptop runs Windows 8 (no RT). Each is targeted for a different hardware architecture. Think of RT as a slimmed down version of Windows 8 that looks like Windows 8 but is only targeted for tablets. Sure it can run the new version of Microsoft Office, but that's about it (as far the legacy Windows apps are concerned). It can only run the apps from the Microsoft Store. Think of it more like an iPad with a keyboard that uses the Microsoft store, which by the way has fewer apps than the Apple App Store. This does not mean that you can't get a l