The keyboard on the screen, although pretty to look at, is abysmal for typing anything over 140 characters. There isn't a built-in pen for note-taking, either.

Perhaps because he's a writer Bilton seems somewhat blinded to the idea that there are other kinds of content.

The Surface tablet also comes with built-in applications from Windows 8 that will allow people to write or create fun spreadsheets. (O.K., maybe not fun, but spreadsheets nonetheless.)

not fun? The Macalope will submit that, since the dawn of computing, the percentage of spreadsheets that can be considered "fun" is so de minimus it shares a pair of underwear with zero.

A number of people took issue with Bilton, as people on the Internet do, and Bilton responded by , as oversensitive writers for major media outlets do when they're called names.