One size doesn't fit all - and that's exactly the issue with office work. After years in IT business I know exactly what are my "peak" hours/time and when it's better not to do anything work-wise and just focus on something else. Forcing me to work specific schedule in a specific office setup is no go for me. Plus other things like being able to exercise instead of my commute, eat healthy, use my equipment and tools I prefer, being able to refocus when I need and take advantage of my biological peak/down hours/time made me super efficient and productive.
The current generation of 50+ years old developers came from a way smaller pool of developers when they all started 30+ years ago and that's the reason that only a minuscule of them still codes. The percentage of current younger developers still coding in their 50% will be more closer to other engineering fields based on amount of developers entering the field every year last 20 years (even considering how many will simply abandon doing development once hitting 30 or 40) - not everybody will become managers or start their own businesses.
Not too many people know about Operation Paperclip (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Paperclip) and what it meant for NASA and space race (Wernher von Braun was chief architect of the Saturn V launch vehicle, the key instrument in getting man to the moon)
1. Nobody cares about handwriting all day long, quite a niche use (the same as for Tablet PC 8 years ago).
2. Nobody cares about MS Office anymore. There are alternatives (and free) for regular folks.
3. There is no new PC coming and MS learnt that today.
4. I have a feeling that this post is a well prepared marketing pitch...
Might be a niche usage, that's true. I don't care about MS Office either, except for OneNote which is great for taking notes with a stylus. I don't do much word processing beyond that, so it's not much use to me. It's certainly your right to be suspicious of anonymous comments, but perhaps your disbelief of any positive coverage for a Microsoft product is more telling of yourself. I use the best solution out there for me, right now that happens to be a Surface Pro. If Apple comes out with an equivalent device not based on iOS, so that I can do real work on it, then I'd consider switching.
Everything is awesome until you stop doing general stuff. Once I started digging into more complex MDX queries in SSAS (calculated fields) the story started to be quite different.
I have been doing Win dev since 1993 so I could tell you a lot of stories...
