A former Microsoft exec now believes, the Surface tablet was a bad idea for the company. Besides the fact the company was a year late in tablet game, yeah it was more than a bad idea. People made up their minds they were either rolling with Apple or with an Android. The launch of the device was terrible, their not moving any real units compared to  Apple and Android.  Windows 8 has’nt been a big success turning people away from the device, so the former exec maybe on to something when he says it was a bad idea.“Back in the late 1990s we had our own tablet under development,” he continued. “It never saw the light of day. When I left in 2002 people were talking about social media. We were selling phone software. But we didn’t take advantage of any of that. I’m not a big fan of Facebook (FB). I’m on Facebook, but the program is so confusing and user unfriendly. Its value lies in over 1 billion people using it and the network which runs it. The user investment is immense.”