I don't trust much that comes from PC Magazine in the first place, but this article is really kind of funny. They're going to go to Google, who is also selling their own tablets (Nexus)? Seriously. this smacks of yet another Apple fan looking to damage Surface sales because they are afraid of what it will do to their precious iPad sales.
I own an iPad as well as a few Android tablets, including a Nexus 7, and the Surface is far and away the best tablet I own. None of the others can directly print to my printer, but my Surface can. That alone makes it the best tablet I own, hands down.
The iProducts people are scared because they know MS has beaten them at their own game and articles like this prove it.
Just for the record, I am a very long time Linux user (since around 1995) and not an MS fanboy at all. Windows 8 and the Surface have made me pay attention to MS and admit they are going the right way, finally.