Good point. I think a lot of folks forget those are MSFT products. I know I forget it all the time!
I'm very interested in what impact the Surface Pro is going to have. Perhaps it pushes Apple and Google to move their OS versions closer to a one size fits all devices approach? I thought I read somewhere recently Google wants to move in that direction. Chromebooks and Android mobile devices would all operate from the same OS at some point.
You forgeting that MS is addicted to OEMs as same as Google and Surface is just equivlent to Nexus, so impact of that device will have same as impact of Nexus.... practicly non. What impact will have is Windows 8/RT as MS's plan to bomb tablet market from laptop market where they dominated for many years, if you look CES it was full of transformers with Windows 8 you can rarly see any Android transformer an personally i didn't see any android tablet being show offed (or i missed it or they didnt get spotlight). As having laptop and tablet as one device and it runs on architecture that is already dominated by Windows it might mess up situation on tablet market.
Chromebook and Android are already technically running on same OS (Linux
), it just matter what software they run on top of it. To extend Chromebook they could implement Android platform (As it is Java-based platform in theory it can be implemented anywhere does not even need to be Linux,) which runs Android apps on desktop like windows that can go fullscreen (Apple's OS X style), that would be pretty good, hru not sure how this gonna beat more open envriament of Windows on desktop market. Other solution would be turn Chromebook system in too full flage Linux distro which will be more open to user and ofcorse can also do implementing Android apps too.