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Microsoft attempts market freeze with Surface preview

Microsoft gave a fairly good imitation of Apple in debuting its Surface tablets. The event, held at an artsy Los Angeles studio space, was shrouded in mystery, and Microsoft executives were properly dressed down for the occasion. 

The famously leaky company was mostly able to surprise the assembled press with the multicolored array of Surface tablets and ultrabooks. But Microsoft disregarded one key element that is part of Apple's show-and-tell script -- make the hardware real, available to the press on that day or before, and for customers soon thereafter. 

 

 

CNET reviewer Eric Franklin … Read more