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Microsoft Whiteboard is now generally available for Windows
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#12Useless for me. I'm not willing to sign up for a microsoft account to use a glorified mspaint.
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#13Compare that app + Surface Hub to Google Jamboard [1] which is a single-purpose 4k TV capable of only fulfilling this use case and costing $5k + $600/year. 1 - https://gsuite.google.com/products/jamboard/
A Surface Hub is $9K though, so not sure why you're bringing up cost here.
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#14That sentence at the end is odd - does it mean that the iOS app will be paid for?
> Microsoft Whiteboard is available as an app for all users on Windows 10 devices. For commercial users, the Whiteboard app will be coming soon to iOS
Re: Microsoft Whiteboard is now generally available for Windows
#15Compare that app + Surface Hub to Google Jamboard [1] which is a single-purpose 4k TV capable of only fulfilling this use case and costing $5k + $600/year. 1 - https://gsuite.google.com/products/jamboard/
A Surface Hub is $9K though, so not sure why you're bringing up cost here.
Look at the comparison they made and you'll understand why...
Re: Microsoft Whiteboard is now generally available for Windows
#16Compare that app + Surface Hub to Google Jamboard [1] which is a single-purpose 4k TV capable of only fulfilling this use case and costing $5k + $600/year. 1 - https://gsuite.google.com/products/jamboard/
A Surface Hub is $9K though, so not sure why you're bringing up cost here.
The Hub is an actual complete Surface PC. $9k is ridiculous, but it is more than just a whiteboard.
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#17Effective distributed whiteboarding, etc. is something that the tech industry has been dithering with for decades and nothing has ever seemed to quite click. It feels that, with relatively inexpensive tablets [ADDED: and almost affordable big screen touchscreens], maybe we'll actually converge on something interesting.
I've used it a few times on my Surface Pro with friends not being on tablets, and it worked really well when skyping and doing maths/cs.
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#18Earlier quoted context omitted.
A Surface Hub is $9K though, so not sure why you're bringing up cost here.
The Hub is an actual complete Surface PC. $9k is ridiculous, but it is more than just a whiteboard.
The next generation (that they recently demoed in videos) is expected to be much, much cheaper.
Re: Microsoft Whiteboard is now generally available for Windows
#19Effective distributed whiteboarding, etc. is something that the tech industry has been dithering with for decades and nothing has ever seemed to quite click. It feels that, with relatively inexpensive tablets [ADDED: and almost affordable big screen touchscreens], maybe we'll actually converge on something interesting.
I've used it a few times on my Surface Pro with friends not being on tablets, and it worked really well when skyping and doing maths/cs.
It seems to be yet another area where people are organically iterating into solutions that work for them and the people they collaborate/interact with rather than everyone using the same tool that addresses all use cases.
For example, I haven't tried anything for whiteboarding recently but a number of my standing conference calls use Google Docs to dynamically add notes, action items, etc. in realtime and that works pretty well for a lot of things.
Re: Microsoft Whiteboard is now generally available for Windows
#20That sentence at the end is odd - does it mean that the iOS app will be paid for? > Microsoft Whiteboard is available as an app for all users on Windows 10 devices. For commercial users, the Whiteboard app will be coming soon to iOS
Based on the other footnote, I think the reference to "commercial users" is drawing a distinction between business Office 365 users (i.e. their own instance with a custom domain) and personal Office 365 users:
> Whiteboard currently supports collaboration within Office 365 tenants for commercial customers, and across personal accounts for customers with a Microsoft account. Collaboration across multiple Office 365 tenants is planned for future release.
If I'm right, anyone will be able to download the iOS Whiteboard app but only login if they have a business account.