this time is they're not happy with the other manufacturer's not pushing the vendor lock-in Microsoft wants hard enough. The Surface RT will ONLY allow you to load software sold for it from the Microsoft shop and you can't change the OS on it at all - one of the aims Microsoft declared back in the mid 1990s; but only coming true now because they're pushing it.

If the price of the Surface Pro is up around that of a touch centric Ultrabook, why would you buy a surface over an Ultrabook that can do the same but with a stronger keyboard and protection built in.