The initial reaction to Microsoft's new Surface Go has been as polarizing as it was predictable. So let's retrench.

"The Surface Go is an iPad killer!" the Windows enthusiast blogs are shrilly claiming. I assume this is a vain attempt to block out their inner disappointment that Microsoft is foisting this low-end device on the world instead of the Andromeda dream device they think is going to simultaneously solve all their problems and reverse Microsoft's mobile defeats.