As recently as two months ago, there were speculations that Microsoft postponed the Surface release Mini and will present it only after the conference where he presented the Surface Pro 3. While in the past there was talk of postponement, now the foreign media are talking about cancellation. Microsoft at the last minute it canceled development of a small tablet to compete with the iPad mini and had to offer its users specific features such as a keyboard, a display with a diagonal of 7.5 to 8 inches, an ARM processor and finally a system Windows RT 8.1 with application OneNote and set Office.
The reason for the cancellation is quite surprising. Microsoft in fact, he expressed concern that the next generation of the phone iPhone will have a very big impact on the segment mini-tablets with 7-inch displays. While the 4,7-inch version will not pose any risk to this segment, according to Microsoftu can 5,5-inch iPhone really cripple sales of small tablets and so would threaten to Microsoft will produce a product for which there will be practically zero interest. However, he himself managed to confirm the existence of the product in the online manual for Surface Pro 3, where he mentioned Surface Mini in the Surface Pen pairing guide. This can only confirm that the product was canceled at the last minute and Microsoft threw money out the window.
