


Anyone who creates content is going to need these. Compared to the closed architecture of iOS in particular, this is a big advantage. A USB 3.0 port and a microSDXC card slot allow for all kinds of possibilities, such as thumb drives and external hard drives. The RT's Micro-HDMI port is capable of running an external display. There are not any core Office applications - Word, Excel, PowerPoint - on iOS or Android yet, so the Microsoft Windows RT is only game in town. Excel spreadsheets and Word documents that get mangled by Google Docs, QuickOffice and iOS and Android mail client file previewers come over with little trouble on the Surface. This is real, honest-to-goodness Microsoft Office. The Surface RT has a respectable 8- 10 hours of battery life.

I have been using the Surface RT as a mobile adjunct to my other PCs (a Windows 8 laptop and an Ultrabook) for more than two months now, and my Surface RT review covers the good, the bad and the ugly of Microsoft Windows RT.
