In a highly-guarded product launch which generated a level of buzz the company hasn't seen in years, Microsoft announced on Monday night in Los Angeles the Surface family of tablets designed to work with the new Windows 8 operating system and challenge Apple's stronghold on the tablet market with the iPad.
The launch event, which marked Microsoft's first foray into personal computing hardware in years, was in itself noteworthy. Tech journalists who turned up had no idea what to expect, and Microsoft managed to keep the contents of the event almost completely secret until the announcement was made.
What's also interesting is that apart from the built-in keyboard, the device comes with a magnetic stylus (which attaches to the top of the tablet) so that you can write on it. Windows is able to detect the proximity of the pen and intelligiently stops taking touch input
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