Microsoft has knocked $130 off the price of its Surface 2 Windows RT tablets in Australia — making them cheaper than even the lowliest large iPad models. The price reduction means the base 32GB model now costs $399, and the 64GB unit costs $509.
Briefly: Microsoft has a “small gathering” for its Surface tablets planned for New York City on May 20th — read between the lines, and it looks like a reduced-size Surface is on the way. An 8-inch tablet would make the Surface even more portable, and give the reigning champion iPad…
[clear] It’s the second coming of Microsoft’s hybrid tablet for the masses, but has it improved at all from the last model? Sure it’s brilliant hardware, but it seems to have been made impotent by Windows RT.