I don't remember the model but it was just a couple of weeks after MS released the Surface. They had a big area in Prudential Center in Boston with tables and young people letting passersbys trying these tablets. This young fellow was demoing the tablet to me and I asked him about what kind of apps I can get for this device. He said, we have many, just name what you would be interested. I said, do the search on Spanish for apps. He entered Spanish and tons and tons of tiles appeared on the tablet. I was very impressed when one of my daughter who was with me said, "how come this app is showing?" and the app she was pointing at was something like "Arabic." And then we started looking closer at the apps and realized that every app that had anything to do with the foreign language was displayed. Needless to say that the young man who was demoing the tablet was embarrassed.

My main reason not to consider MS tablet is I don't trust the security of MS computers and it translates into device or anything that uses MS-based OS. I have spent too many hours dealing with viruses and Trojans on my PC that it really turned me into an anti-MS-OS person. I have to use it on my PC; this is my job. But on a device that I would be using for fun, no way.


>Familiarity is a good reason.
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>What didn't you like about the Windows tablet? Do you remember which make/model it was?
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>>Windows tablet is definely out of the running. I did "test" it at the demo in a mall a few weeks ago and didn't like it.
>>I have not tried Android. I know iProducts from using iPhone so iPad is a more familiar device for me.