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Ummmm...No. Microsoft has nothing to do with these articles. Surface 2 was launched without such articles appearing. The only reason the tech press is saying Apple is copying Microsoft is because Apple IS copying Microsoft.

Please give any evidence you have that Apple is copying Microsoft. . . any at all. Show that Apple has released a full OS tablet/laptop convertible. You cannot. Show that Apple is in any way duplicated the functionality of the Microsoft Surface. You cannot. Show even that the Apple Pencil works at all like the stylus that comes with the Microsoft Surface. You again cannot. . . because the Apple Pencil functionality is far more than the MS stylus' functionality. . . and there were iPad styluses, detachable keyboards, and other functions available in the Apple iPad ecosystem before Microsoft even thought of making a tablet/laptop hybrid.

The ONLY ONE HERE WHO CANNOT HANDLE THE TRUTH is you. I can prove every one of my contentions with links to the products and the dates PREDATING the introduction of any surface hardware from Microsoft. You cannot. In fact, I already have for the keyboards.

Microsoft has a history of astroturf marketing and in fact were the originators of the FUD campaign style of marketing. This is history. There is no myth about it. YOU are the one who claims that "Apple regularly steals ideas from others and has been doing so for decades" but offers no evidence except your unsupported innuendo and YOU claim I believe in conspiracy theories. You are probably one who still believes Apple stole the GUI from Xerox. . .

Microsoft has a history of astroturf marketing and in fact wereIthe originators of the FUD campaign style of marketing. This is history. There is no myth about it.

Chuckle! How you wiggle and twist and turn to get yourself out of the hole you dug yourself into. You in effect claimed that all.these articles in the tech and business press about Apple copying Microsoft are written by writers in the pay of Microsoft. In effect you are saying that highly reputable publications with histories of being tough on Microsoft, who are in fierce competition with each other, somehow got together, took money from Microsoft, then decided to write similar articles about Apple ripping off Microsoft Surface, just in time for the Surface 4 launch, WITHOUT ONE IOTA OF PROOF. These are very serious allegations. So why don't you produce your proof in open forum for everyone to see? I want dates and times and who did the paying of the bribes from Microsoft how much money was paid. who received monies, the works.