Microsoft's Surface has made a very small splash in the tablet pool, and now it's said the company has plans for the next edition of the hardware before the summer.
Stevie Bathiche's team of tinkerers occupies a niche between research and product development. Of his team's need for creative freedom, he says: "They have to feel like they can be wrong."
According to the software billionaire-turned-philanthropist, the firm missed a trick on the mobile front and didn't "get out in the lead early... clearly a mistake."
