H4cked Off: Slating the Surface

Stuart Sumner
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Stuart Sumner gets driven to the very edge of despair in his attempts to get Microsoft Surface to actually do anything at all

Computing's copy of the Microsoft Surface tablet has been knocking around the office like an expensive paperweight in recent weeks, largely due to the fact that it has never actually worked. You'd ...

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