I've loved the snapping apps to sides of a screen on my Surface for the past few years, however does anyone know whether the full-screen snapping is still around in Windows 10? It seems like Microsoft may have removed it in favor of a simply snapping apps within the desktop.

Windows 10 has two "modes." Tablet mode, which is very similar to 8.1, and desktop mode which is a mash up between 8.1 bits and Windows 7 bits (e.g. apps in windows, no full screen Start Screen, etc).

So in answer to your question: If you're in tablet mode then it will still offer that in Windows 10.

It looks like full-screen snapping is used when the machine is in "Tablet mode", which you can turn on and off in the Windows 10 action center.

I've been considering replacing my three year old iPad with a Surface 3. I like the idea of a tablet that can run Foobar2000, Mame, and Putty, and Vim. (The only thing I am concerned with is the tablet's ability to run Mame with that Atom processor.)

Now of they would also copy the virtual keyboard from Windows. I hate the iPad keyboard, it's really sluggish and it has no arrow keys.

It's astonishing how many virtual keyboards omit the arrow keys. I was delighted to see them on the Windows 8 virtual keyboard.

iOS 9 will let you use the keyboard on iPad as a trackpad area to position the cursor. Quite clever.