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But in that case you don't want more than a white board. There are many cases, especially in the corporate world, where you want a single-purpose device that isn't going to need maintenance, group policies, etc etc.
Buying a device without "group policies, etc etc" doesn't mean you don't still need to implement them. Damn I wish our company would stop buying Alexa/Home/Chromecast/Sonos/IoT-box-from-down-the-street.
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Surface Pro looks really cool: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/surface/business/surface-hub... Sometime ago I've read that its success was a surprise and the demand was greater than MS could produce. Is it really good?
I work for an international manufacturer. We're deploying Surface Hubs to all locations that have a good enough internet connection. I've only used it a couple times as a glorified whiteboard and had a good experience. Apparently it has some very good microphones and software running. Regardless of where a person is in the room, it will adjust the microphone level so you can hear them clearly. The people training men…
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No, anyone can login. What they're saying is, O365 Commercial Users [companies using O365, not personal accounts] can only collaborate with other O365 Commercial users, while Personal users can collaborate with other personal users. Cross-collaboration [so, xyz@company.com collaborating with abc@outlook.com] will come later.
I was responding to the question asking if the iOS app will have to be paid for. Personal users may be able to collaborate but based on the other footnote, not through the iOS app.
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The next generation (that they recently demoed in videos) is expected to be much, much cheaper.
Can you provide a link or two?
Price info: https://wccftech.com/microsoft-surface-hub-2-22000/
There is a better article I read about the pricing when it was first announced, but that's the few top results that goes over it.
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I work for an international manufacturer. We're deploying Surface Hubs to all locations that have a good enough internet connection. I've only used it a couple times as a glorified whiteboard and had a good experience. Apparently it has some very good microphones and software running. Regardless of where a person is in the room, it will adjust the microphone level so you can hear them clearly. The people training men…
I thought it was a gimmick like the rest but this and other comments here seem to indicate there might be something to it. How much does it cost?
I really wish we could use Surface Hubs or this new whiteboard product at my company. We're a huge global enterprise and many development teams are split across boarders. It is very difficult to convey complicated technical work over a conference call or to whip out a visio type diagram on the fly. We're heavy cisco users and are using Webex Teams (formally cisco spark) along with Cisco Spark boards. It's cool that i…
I share your frustration. In my team, I estimate the cost of these boards are equivalent to the cost of about 3 face-to-face meetings of my team. I think there's also a productivity / opportunity cost from only being able to share a whiteboard (real or virtual) during these occasional f2f meetings. So it drives me a little nuts that management doesn't invest in this more, and treat team communications in general as a…
We're seeing many enterprises starting to see the benefits & the economics just simply make sense with the decreasing cost curves of large panel displays, and the increasing quality of interactive touch/ink panels.
We've had JamBoards with GSuite for a while. They're cool to play with, but once the novelty wears off no one really seems to use them any more and they collect dust in the corner of the meeting rooms. Anyone actually using these things frequently, or see anyone else actually use them? I've never seen any meetings where people just draw out pictures of rabbits or trivially simple flow-charts and call it day...
Yea, we have the hubs at our office and use this. It’s great for collaborative diagramming.
Ink to shape and ink to table are interesting. Collaborating with people using this thing might be useful.
This is just the beginning, but you can imagine many more examples going down this road that will unlock a ton more value in the core "ideation" scenario in which Whiteboard lives.
Looks exactly like they pulled out the whiteboarding from Lync/Skype for Business and made it stand-alone...