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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
#132Didn't they try to offer something similar with the Xbox One? That may have mostly been targeted at consumers though.
The Xbox One is a combination of game console and DVR. It has no features designed specifically for workplace conferences, but of course there are tons of apps so it's possible some workplaces are using it that way. In between rounds of Call of Duty.
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#133Really? We're calling it a "hit" already? How many have they sold? I don't know anyone who has one, and most people I know don't even know it exists. Once again Peter Bright being the ultimate Microsoft shill. (I knew this was him before even clicking on the article just from the headline.)
2000 customers, average of 50 devices per customer, average of $15000 per devices
2000 * 50 * $15000 = $1.5 billion
I think that objectively counts as a hit...
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#134Really surprised by the specs and cost of this thing compared to what's out there. Might be the reason Google is making their Jamboard.
They should give these away for free so that more businesses would sign up for G suite.
It's been over 10 years since Docs and its shocking how businesses haven't started using it. MS is trying to imitate those experiences but 365 in a browser is still painful.
The fact that you need an app to connect to Surface is so alien in my universe.
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#135I'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…
Can you do remote collaborative whiteboarding? I'm looking at this for either having a Hub at each end or a Hub at one end and a tablet at another. Trying to find a way to bring geographically distributed team members (virtually) closer together.
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#136"In a Forrester report commissioned by Microsoft, it's claimed that meetings start more promptly—less faffing about to get remote attendees dialed in or computers hooked up to the projector—saving 15 to 23 minutes per meeting." Yes, yes, a thousand times yes! Every company I've been at, I've seen this happen over and over and over again, every meeting. I feel like I'm the only one aware of how much time and productiv…
Interesting. The only time I've ever had trouble was in a really large room where we had to schedule AV staff to operate everything. Day-to-day conference rooms worked just fine, even with multiple cameras, monitors, touch screens, etc.. This is at multiple companies/industries over the last 6 years (before that there were problems).
I worked at a place with $25k/room of cisco teleconference gear. It worked great.
The problem (ime) is with employers unwilling to spend the $25k/room.
The last employer used LifeSize which is great as long as everyone is in a room with hardware. If you have a mix of people dialing in with laptops and people in rooms with LifeSize hardware it's hot garbage.
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#137It doesn't surprise me that Microsoft is in this space, and that they're doing well. But who would have thought this was a billion dollar business? I figured that the conference room's tech begins to rapidly depreciate almost immediately after installation; but maybe this is something different.
Rapid depreciation isn't necessarily a bad thing for business. iPhones rapidly depreciate, and iPhones are pretty much the biggest business on earth.
Not that I disagree that iPhones are big, but cmon, "the biggest business on earth?" This is a planet that has Oil business, Telecom business, medical products, rice, coffee, fish, illicit drugs, pharmaceutical drugs. There are other businesses that are in a class well beyond a mere consumer electronic device, iPhone or no.
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#138Earlier quoted context omitted.
Doesn't look to me like it's very related to the PixelSense.
Careful, Surface is now a brand of various computers, PixelSense was the old Surface Table with a display where pixels included cameras, but is now used to describe the new Surface's screen. So let's summarize: * old Surface: a table. * new Surface: a brand that started out with tablets but now includes a convertible laptop, a desktop, and a conference room computer. * old PixelSense: a renamed old Surface with new f…
PixelSense is a company that Microsoft acquired a couple years ago. It's unrelated to the original "surface" technology they showcased previously (the big coffee table you are talking about), other than sharing the same name. Surface is now just the branding of their whole series of first party touch enabled devices (surface pro, surface studio, surface book, surface hub)
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#139Meetings and printing/scanning are two areas where I lose so much time doing nothing. Now only if someone made printing scanning far more simpler and glitch free.
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#140Earlier quoted context omitted.
We've been using zoom.us for a few years now and it seems to work pretty well. If your internet is too flaky you can still dial in.
+10. Also has an awesome Linux client that works flawlessly in Ubuntu and Debian, so we can do customer demos (@userify, if it matters) in the Linux+SSH environment that several of the more hard-core people here (including me!) prefer.
I hate their bus ads in SF, but the product rocks. I requested a Debian Stretch package and they made one for me the next day.