We don't usually see the Microsoft people drinking the Kool-Aid, that's usually the Apple folks.

In the past few days Microsoft has proven that they too can serve Kool-Aid.

With no real details out on the product I'm baffled how anybody can even begin to think it will or won't be useful for them.

And with just under 50% of the people out in computer land still running XP, the move to 8 will be as successful as the move from XP to everything that has come since will be.

The video for it on their website is a better advertisement for Bucky Balls than it is for a tablet. Their spec sheet says Actual size and weight of the device may vary due to configuration and manufacturing process so that's not apparently set yet either.

There are 25 stores listed, of which four are coming soon.

I can't picture them really believing they can sell this thing without stores in seven of the ten largest cities in the country.

Drink the Kool-Aid, buy it without ever having the chance to touch it since apparently they don't want you to handle it first.