Microsoft Surface - 10.6 inch Windows 8 Tablet

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Originally Posted by Johnny Vinyl

I'm really quite excited about having a chance to play with the Surface Pro when it comes out, but I may decide that a full-size Notebook/Laptop would serve me better. I don't know, so the door is wide open. One thing though, I won't really have a choice of OS once I decide as Win 8 will be the standard by that time, no?

Good question; honestly, I'm not sure. Seeing as Android can be updated with later builds on some tablets, Microsoft may follow suit, but because the mobile OS code is proprietary (rather than an open-source platform like Android), Microsoft will (more than likely) charge their users an upgrade fee of some sort to do so. Of course, with a laptop, you can always upgrade to another OS, even one that's not Microsoft-based.

I'm sure this will be addressed when Surface Pro is about to be released.