Microsoft's Surface is still an iPad, according to NBC's Al Michaels - CNET This is something from which Microsoft suffered during last year's NFL season. Having spent a reported $400 million to bring its Surface to NFL eyes, announcers kept referring to it as "the iPad."

At the time, it was said that networks were constantly reminding their talkers that the Surface looks nothing like an iPad and should therefore be referred to by its actual name.

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