I use the apple bluetooth keyboard. It isn’t a soft keyboard, but I keep it in my briefcase and it works great for me. My primary business uses are note taking in town meetings (I represent a couple of small towns) and other meetings; email and calendars, which update with iphone and my office pc whenever either I or my assstant input them.
Close, but not where I want them.
Examples are accessing my WCS remotely. I need to VNC into another machine and access it from there because it doesn't play well on my iPad's Safari.
Another draw back is the available VNC/RDP/SSH/Telnet clients. Sure, they exist... But have you actually tried USING them? They suck. Flat out. I've even wasted cash on some of the paid apps and the best I can figure is that this is the best the interface itself can offer.
Not good enough.
I've already checked the public demo of Win8 and have already figured out all my old tricks on it. Launching an admin cli for tel/ssh/ftp works. If it still does on the Surface, then that much the better.
Other api's use either Java or Flash, hopefully html 5... And Window's runs 'em all.
I'm in a predominantly Mac environment right now and we're trying to move to Linux due mostly to cost and Apple shenanigans with it's Server stuff. I don't want the iTunes store being our Primary licensing center... Madness...