just give it 12 months and it will be nice to see what that fabric looks like on the palm rest and in between the keys... Yuk. Also, it seems that Microsoft have found the After Effects template Apple use for their presentations.
You don't have to wait for so long. How is the experience of people using the Surface Pro 4 tablet with the fabric keyboard?
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Based on what metric? Last I saw, their hardware are extremely niche, and not really selling in all that great a quantity.
Well, I could not find much date on the sales numbers. But there are some news in the sense that Surface Pro exceeded expectations. The Surface line sold 6 million units in 2015, more than the projections of 4 million:
http://pocketnow.com/2016/02/03/microsoft-surface-sales-numbers-q4-2015-whole-year. Numbers were good, especially after Microsoft took a USD 900 million write-off on Surface RT tablet just two years earlier, in 2013.
That is not that much, and other products probably sell less. The Surface Book sold 10x less than the Surface Pro 4, for instance:
http://www.techradar.com/news/mobil...ore-surface-pro-4s-than-surface-books-1323945.
During the same year (2015), Apple sold 20.5 million Macs, as a comparison. It is more than 3x the number of the Surface line. But things should be put in perspective: Microsoft's line of computers have been here for just a short period of time. In 2015, Microsoft had the Surface Pro 3 and the Surface 3, and had just released the Surface Pro 4 and the Surface Book. Most of Microsoft's offerings were cheaper, but Apple had a full line of computers, including desktops.
In addition, one should notice that Microsoft's Surface line runs Windows, as well as many other offerings from Dell, HP, Lenovo, Acer, Samsung, Toshiba, Asus, and other manufacturers. So, in addition to Microsoft's Surface line being a niche product (only tablets and an expensive convertible in 2015), there were plenty of cheap laptops, desktops and tablets from competitors, all of them running Windows. However, if you wish to run maOS (or OS X at the time), you have to buy a Mac, and users may be willing to pay a premium for that.
So, Microsoft was successful in meeting and surpassing the expectations. Sales numbers are not high, but I doubt they were supposed to be. Microsoft seems to be slowly building a line of computers, and does not want to rush it. The main business of Microsoft is still software: Windows and Office.