It certainly sounded like it was implied, but Microsoft was not making the event about, "Look what Apple's been doing, and we can do it now, too!" The event was more like, "Okay, we're doing all this now, and look at all this cool stuff that takes it light years further."
Yeah, going from working on the Surface Hub, to tablet, to phone, just by picking it up and going is exactly what was implied. It did show at one point an Excel spreadsheet in progress on one device, that device closed, a phone picked up and there it was ready for editing where it had left off. So yeah, I think it was implied that this will be part of it and part of the "one experience across all devices."
The reason MS didn't compare it, also, is because they don't want people to compare it to the way Apple does it, because Apple does it in a much more limited way. MS wants to make it more natural and automatic without having to think about it, and they want you to think of one device as an extension of another device (like the tablet streaming the Xbox One scenario).
No one else has come close to this type of unity. Other tech companies have done pieces of much of it, but to bring it all together seamlessly into a single OS across all devices is nothing short of astounding.
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