They make world class laptops which are the basis of a console starting with PS4/Bone.does the surface team know anything about console hardware
The Xbox management team doesn't know anything about management and that never stopped themdoes the surface team know anything about console hardware
Staying in hardware is the worst thing they can do. No on wants a MS video game console any way you slice it.
So steam machine which have already failedA well priced, fully integrated Windows PC that looks and feels like a console. Casual users don't even have to know it's not an Xbox. You only see a Windows desktop if you are looking for it.
The upside is publishers don't need to make an "Xbox" build of their game. They just make a PC build. If you buy one, you don't have to worry that you bought a dead console cause it's still useful to you.