With the introduction of the iPad Air, Apple has changed the game once again. "Thinness" is once again the watchword, and every upcoming tablet will be compared against Apple's thinner, lighter tablets to see if they measure up.
The thing is, several recently announced Windows tablets do measure up. Quite well, in fact. They're just not made by Microsoft.
On Tuesday morning, a few hours before Apple unveiled its own offerings in San Francisco, Microsoft began selling its Surface 2 and Surface 2 Pro tablets. Yesterday, we summed up those Microsoft's tablets quite simply: excellent hardware, but crippled by a lack of apps. But by Tuesday afternoon, Microsoft's Surface 2 (and especially the Surface Pro 2) looked clunky compared to Apple's new ultra-thin 9.7-incher.
Nokia announced a new Windows tablet as well—but no one is going to remember it either. But there are some new Windows 8.1 devices that will help Microsoft's story in our new post-iPad Air world.
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