[simonh]

It seems like the Nintendo DS worked because every single piece of software for it was written to use both screens effectively. With this, I can't imagine there will be hardly any software ever written for it specifically to use two screens, except maybe some first party stuff at launch.

I'm also worried about use on the go. When you're holding it in your hands, a folding device is a pain to use. If there was some reason you couldn't have a single large screen maybe ok, but as you say this is a solved problem.

[olyjohn]

YUP. This will end up like all the other Surfaces of the past... It will just get used like a regular laptop, docked to external peripherals 99% of the time. It will run Word, Outlook and Edge, and be locked down so the user can't do anything new or interesting with it. I doubt that the majority of Microsoft's own applications will even be optimized for this configuration.