Tom Warren wrote his Microsoft Surface Pro 12-inch review for The Verge (emphasis added):

This Surface Pro redesign also presents some of the best bits of rival tablets into a piece of hardware that feels a lot more tablet-like than Microsoft has ever created. I’ve been using this Surface Pro in tablet mode more often as a result, simply because of the smaller size and the ease of switching between laptop and tablet modes. The operating system and apps still feel like more of a laptop, though. Microsoft also sells the Surface Pro without a keyboard, as if it’s a pure tablet, but as always, you really need to purchase that $150 keyboard to unlock the best experience.

The Surface Pro 12 sounds like the most compelling tablet-like device Microsoft has ever released, but I’ve long argued that a UX can’t simultaneously be touch friendly and information rich enough for multiasking while on a tablet sized screens. As much as iPadOS has favored touchability over information richness, Windows has done the opposite. There have been a plethora of touch enabled devices that run Windows, but none have been great tablet experiences specifically because of Windows.

I am deeply interested to see the rumored iPadOS multitasking improvements Apple is expected to announce at WWDC next week. My gut tells me that we’ll get another dud unless iPadOS 26 somehow becomes much more information rich and I don’t see how that happens without sacrificing touchability by shrinking its user interface, presumably when a keyboard and touchpad is connected.