The author is a Microsoft shill, nothing more.
This article tells you nothing other than this guy likes his Microsoft tablet. Big whoop. And to read it, you'd think that Google doesn't even exist. What a laugh. Microsoft is an anachronism in search of a mission.
They have enough money that they'll be in business for a good while to come, but even the biggest names in computing have gone bye-bye. Honeywell, DEC, SGI, Sun... all faded memories. Microsoft isn't next, but they're on the long slow slide to irrelevance.