Two years after being available in the US/Canada, Microsoft Surface has finally reached British shores.

Retailing for a whopping £10,000 means we’re probably not going to see them popping up all over the place any time soon, unless you often stay in 5 star hotels (Sheraton Hotel group use Surface tables for self-check ins by tapping your credit cared on the table – creepy) .

Microsoft claim to have only around 120 application development partners working with the proprietary system, compared to the several thousand developers working on applications for the more open iPhone and Android systems.

We had a chance to play with the Surface last year, and were not too impressed. The software seemed very buggy like a prototype, not at all what you’d usually expect from the software giant.

The hype has died down, and the price is far too high – maybe the Surface has missed it’s peak.