Original URL: http://www.reghardware.com/2012/06/22/something_for_the_weekend_microsoft_surface_tablet/Why I love Microsoft’s vapourware tablet Probe beneath the SurfaceBy Alistair Dabbs22nd June 2012 11:30 GMT Something for the weekend, Sir? When I first got into this journalism lark in the late 1980s, the exploding nature of the personal computer market would force the hand of IT companies to reveal products far in advance of their intended launch date. Such was the race to give the appearance of being cutting-edge, they sometimes found themselves announcing products that existed only in diagrams on a boardroom flipchart. Surprisingly often, nothing ever came of these vapourware products: the engineering challenges...