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Microsoft’s Surface Hub is now apparently a billion-dollar business

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Re: Microsoft’s Surface Hub is now apparently a billion-dollar business

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Post by phaed »

agumonkey wrote: post #31
xzel wrote: post #7

I've been using one at work for a while now and I love them, which to me was a huge suprise. Its a product that finally got almost everything right when it comes to a digital whiteboard. And yes to another point that was raised here certainly integration with Mircosoft services was a plus. Its great to have a computer interface that is remote on half the board and white board interface on the other. You can mock up w…

So basically it deprecates 'static' projectors, that's the shift ?

It does that, but it does a lot more too, watch the video: https://www.microsoft.com/microsoft-surface-hub

Re: Microsoft’s Surface Hub is now apparently a billion-dollar business

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Post by brianwawok »

dom0 wrote: post #55
Someone1234 wrote: post #46

Earlier quoted context omitted.

People aren't buying specs, they're buying an integrated experience. You can definitely reproduce the spec sheet for less money, but you cannot trivially reproduce the HUI or the research that went into it. It is the interface which is the USP of this product, not the hardware. The Jamboard may be superior but the Jamboard doesn't exist as an actual product. We have no final demos, no release date (except "2017"), no…

> The Jamboard may be superior but the Jamboard doesn't exist as an actual product. We have no final demos, no release date (except "2017"), no specs, and no prices. When the Jamboard ships, only then can we draw decent comparisons. Yeah, but it's Google. It feels like at least half their products that are announced with big fanfare either are never released, or released and then scrapped after just a couple years (C…

What should they do to products that dont work? Keep pouring good money in them?

Re: Microsoft’s Surface Hub is now apparently a billion-dollar business

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Post by foobarian »

Analemma_ wrote: post #8
alva wrote: post #2

Very impressive entrance into what I thought would have been a well mature market by this point.

If Microsoft has managed to make it "just work" (I don't know if they have, but that was the pitch IIRC), then I can understand the enthusiasm. Most of the existing solutions have all the features you need, but fall on their face in the case of reliability and ease of just setting up a meeting. Being able to say "no more 10 minute scrambles at the beginning of meetings to get the tech working" is probably worth a lot…

This x 1000. It boggles the mind that in the last 20 years most remote meetings/presentations I witnessed involve this kind of futzing.

Re: Microsoft’s Surface Hub is now apparently a billion-dollar business

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Post by sithadmin »

fergie wrote: post #58

Is it actually a product people love or just a product companies buy? The Skype integration seems like a bit of a red flag.

Aside from the crappy mobile app, Skype for Business (formerly Lync - has nothing to do with the consumer version of Skype) is pretty excellent when it's deployed correctly.

Re: Microsoft’s Surface Hub is now apparently a billion-dollar business

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Post by strictnein »

fergie wrote: post #58

Is it actually a product people love or just a product companies buy? The Skype integration seems like a bit of a red flag.

A red flag? Skype for Business is kind of the standard communications platform for large/enterprise companies.

Re: Microsoft’s Surface Hub is now apparently a billion-dollar business

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Post by agumonkey »

phaed wrote: post #61
agumonkey wrote: post #31

Earlier quoted context omitted.

So basically it deprecates 'static' projectors, that's the shift ?

It does that, but it does a lot more too, watch the video: https://www.microsoft.com/microsoft-surface-hub

I did watch 2 videos of ~10min. It didn't seem as amazing as I imagined.

Most of the features are remote + ink then mail. Nothing that revolutionary. Maybe I missed other demos (I can't find a video on MS website, I used youtube, various sources)

I think my comment was too easy to interpret as lazy sarcasm, I'm just trying to get a picture of what was the setup before.

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Post by dom0 »

brianwawok wrote: post #62
dom0 wrote: post #55

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> The Jamboard may be superior but the Jamboard doesn't exist as an actual product. We have no final demos, no release date (except "2017"), no specs, and no prices. When the Jamboard ships, only then can we draw decent comparisons. Yeah, but it's Google. It feels like at least half their products that are announced with big fanfare either are never released, or released and then scrapped after just a couple years (C…

What should they do to products that dont work? Keep pouring good money in them?

Don't announce stuff you won't release? Like eg. Project Ara

Re: Microsoft’s Surface Hub is now apparently a billion-dollar business

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Post by sjclemmy »

sithadmin wrote: post #64
fergie wrote: post #58

Is it actually a product people love or just a product companies buy? The Skype integration seems like a bit of a red flag.

Aside from the crappy mobile app, Skype for Business (formerly Lync - has nothing to do with the consumer version of Skype) is pretty excellent when it's deployed correctly.

I totally agree. I got forwarded a skype for business invite this morning for a meeting with Microsoft and I haven't used it before. I clicked on the link followed the instructions, which meant installing a pkg on my mac.

The thing that struck me was that after installing the pkg I got taken straight to the conference - I didn't have to go back to the link, put any ID / PIN or anything. It was seamless.

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