Despite the company's statement that it would not attend CES this year Microsoft (NASDAQ:MSFT) apparently just couldn’t stay away from the Las Vegas convention. In addition to Steve Ballmer’s onstage appearance the company also brought along units of its anticipated Surface Pro tablets for tech experts to play with for a limited time at an offsite meeting room. The roughly 45 minutes reviewers spent with the tablet seemingly left them both impressed and intrigued with Microsoft’s answer to the iPad (NASDAQ:AAPL) and Nexus (NASDAQ:GOOG). While Microsoft has yet to announce an official release date for the Surface Pro and ...