Microsoft has tried by all means, without success, to defeat the iPad using the simplest and most ineffective reasoning of all. According to the Redmond team, the iPad was an inferior device precisely because it has a mobile operating system. But if we look at Apple's financial results for the most popular tablet on the market, everything indicates that Microsoft's stakes have only strengthened its position in the market.
So much so that Information has been leaked that Microsoft will soon release a keyboard compatible with the iPad. It is curious to see how a company that has been producing "tablet computers" for years has ended up manufacturing accessories for the competition.
This product that you have brought to light WinFuture, a German blog, could be called iPad Touch Cover and would have its own battery to extend the autonomy of the iPad without impairing its use. This version of the keyboard / case would be the same as the Touch Cover already offers for Microsoft's Surface RT, the lower cost model of tablets. The reality is that the keyboard is quite nice in terms of design, what we do not know is what they will end up doing with the touchpad that includes the version for the Surface RT and that would make little sense on the iPad, we remember that it does not have a system of "mouse" implemented, although it would not be bad to have it on a 13 ″ iPad Pro, the reality is that iOS does not have a window system as we know it.
In short, it seems that the Redmond team will be one more manufacturer of accessories for the iPad ... Does this mean that the iPad has finally sold out to Microsoft's Surface RT? We will have to wait for new events to finish affirming it.