I know that, but why p*** off their core users to sell a few phones, the windows phones are flying of the shelves like lead balloons.
I don't see a problem with the MS Surface using what is essentially a touch screen OS (a.k.a. Metro) as that is intuitive with the device. In fact I quite like the Surface with its incorporated keyboard in its cover, so can be used for more keyboard intensive tasks.
But working on a large screen monitor (a.k.a. desktop) with the same interface is crazy even if it were a touch screen, who works with their arms at shoulder level.
The big clincher on the MS Surface will be exactly what incarnation of win8 it will run, the applications it can run and where it can get them. If MS are going to try the walled garden approach of Apple where you can only get apps from the MS store, who is going to buy a new system that requires you replace all of your existing software. Then it becomes a very expensive and different proposition.