Why did Microsoft release the Surface RT?

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man-bear-pig on 29 October 2012

It seems to me that the only thing the Surface RT will achieve is pissing off consumers because of them expecting it to have windows 8, fully functional MS office, a HD screen etc. etc. ...so why did MS release it? Oh yeah, and it doesn't even have either 3G/4G ffs!

One possible reason is that they desperately wanted to have a tablet on the market in time for Xmas sales, so they just threw it together to rush-release something while they perfected the Surface Pro.

Any ideas why they did it? I think it'll alienate a lot of consumers, and kill some of the hype they had which could've been met with the Surface Pro.