Ex-Windows Chief Praises MacBook Neo, Mourns Surface ARM Era
Former Microsoft Windows chief Steven Sinofsky hails Apple's MacBook Neo as a 'paradigm shifting' computer and uses it to reflect on Windows on ARM history, arguing Windows 8 and Surface RT were early—but not wrong—strategies. He says Neo validates the ARM approach and laments Surface/Windows on ARM’s failure to attract a robust app ecosystem, suggesting with broader developer support the concept could have evolved into a broader family of devices (clamshell, desktop) just as Neo is doing. Sinofsky notes Surface RT resembled Neo in concept and price, and he concludes, 'We were early, but not wrong.'
