Microsoft's Surface Book to reignite OEM hostility

Microsoft's foray into notebooks with the Surface Book is certain to tick off its computer-making partners, but there's little recourse for the latter except to grin and bear it, analysts said today.
"If I'm an OEM, I'm not happy," said Jan Dawson, chief analyst at Jackdaw Research. "The big difference between [the Surface Book] and the Surface Pro three years ago is that the Surface Pro was claiming to be a new category. Now Microsoft is saying the Surface Book is the best, thinnest Windows PC