Surface vs. iPad: How They Really Stack Up

Earlier this week, Microsoft held a secret press event where it unveiled a new family of tablets called Surface. But something about the onstage demo felt awfully familiar…

Still, the Surface still has plenty of fans. The demo snafu notwithstanding, here are 3 reasons why the Microsoft's new tablet just might succeed.

Or as Engadget put it: "Let's take a moment to realize what just happened here. Microsoft just pulled off a showy, big-time event in which they unveiled not one but two pieces of hardware (plus a suite of accessories) that we'd speculated about but not actually seen in the flesh. That's a hell of an achievement, and even more impressively, that hardware looks good. Really good."

Read all about the Surface on ReadWriteWeb here.