Gadgetory

hey this is Josh from the verge and we are backstage after Microsoft's la event they're very secretive event where they announced the surface which is not a huge table but a tablet actually a family of tablets an Intel version and an ARM version that'll run Windows RT and we've had a chance to play around with them we've had a chance to talk to people here it's an interesting product for Microsoft we talked to Steve Ballmer CEO and and he kind of made it sound like he wasn't they weren't just getting into this to trump the competition or to compete with their partners which they're actually doing now they kind of wanted to spark a little excitement maybe or light the fire under their partners to say hey you got to do something really special and really unique for Windows 8 it's a crowded market they are brand new doing a tablet so it'll be interesting to see how that goes but they definitely didn't make it seem like they wanted to sell the most but they want to do something that was special that fit with the release of Windows 8 they wouldn't talk about price it wouldnt talk about release date they say they're going to be competitive we're hearing probably around the holiday season for the RT version which makes sense because that's when Windows 8 is supposed to be out and you know all in all I think it's actually a pretty interesting product I mean it does a lot of stuff that the ipad doesn't do it does a lot of stuff that Android tablets don't do and most importantly for me it actually is somewhat nice looking and has colorful accessories which almost nobody would seems to want to do they've got these cool new keyboards one is a tactile keyboard one is a pressure sensitive touch keyboard they snap on like the smart cover for the ipad and they're actually really attractive and according to everybody here they work really well so we haven't really used one day to day obviously yet but we will do that soon and as soon as we do you guys will be the first to know