That's when we got a lot of the things that we still see in Surface today, like 3:2 screens, Microsoft Pen Protocol, and Surface Connect. It was in 2014 with the Surface Pro 3 that it started to make sense. The original model was too heavy to be a tablet and too small to be a laptop. The Surface RT was actually announced alongside the Surface Pro, a product that made no sense at the time, but hey, it's Microsoft and the company loves to put full Windows on things. What's more interesting is that it's how Surface began. Microsofts September 22 event is expected to be packed with new Surface hardware, from the Surface Book 4, to the Surface Duo 2 and the Surface Go 3. Partners abandoned it immediately, and Microsoft stuck with it for one more generation with the Surface 2 and an effort to save it with Windows RT 8.1. Users would browse the web and see apps that work on Windows 7 and above, and those apps wouldn't work on Windows RT, because you needed apps from the Windows Store. The Surface RT was a little more mysterious though, because it ran Windows RT, something that looked and felt exactly like Windows 8, but wasn't. See flagging, can be gamed Osofsky, Justin (Facebook), 3 Pao, Ellen (Reddit), 56 parody, 63 participatory culture, 1516, 205 peer-to-peer p2p, 28. I've been a Windows user my entire life, and Windows 8 was about to be the most radical change to the OS in its history.
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