The MS Touch Cover is very funky, but reviewers have not been taken with it. Instead of keys traveling to make contact, the Touch Cover has pressure and motion sensitive pads, very (very) like the pads on digital music equipment like to Korg nanopad. The ability to determine how hard a key is struck is very useful. Look on YouTube and there are some great little vids boosting the nanopads with gifted percussionists playing full rhythm sections on them. (Writing this on my phone or I would link)
It is a travesty that MS and a Windows- oriented music software package like Cakewalk have not got together and built a keyboard / drumpad overlay. The Surface needs creative applications and the touch cover offers enormously more sensitivity than a regular keyboard. There is a musician's surface that is marked out with different sliders, but it's only useful to musicians.
Second use is just a toy using the same feature: emotional typing. Hit hard, get bold and bold-underline. Hit gently, get small fonts, or italics or a particularly mellow font.
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