Microsoft had the touch-surface interface back like a year before the iphone came out. But they rolled it out as a $10000 restuarant/menu interface instead of a computing/consumer device one. Classic good tech/bad customer targeting failure. http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/news/press/2007/may07/05-29ms...
Microsoft Introduces New "Surface" Tablet
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#62"Unexpected error occurred." at http://www.microsoft.com/surface/
Not a good omen. (Edit: they fixed it.)
Without having seen the product, I'd say that its fortunes will be based largely on its price point. They need to have a compelling offering in the $499 range, or this is going to be a blip on the iPad/Kindle Fire market.
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#63Silverlight video. Ugh.
The video played in Flash, via YouTube for me.
I don't have Silverlight installed, maybe it fellback to Youtube?
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#64I'm actually a Windows user (although I own an iPad), but you have to be a bit humored by all this. As usual where Apple has used a feather Microsoft have used the whole chicken with keyboards, screws, different versions, the whole enchilada. I'm only surprised there's no stickers. "ClearType display"? really, you felt you had to brand it just to compete with "Retina display". Despite all this the tablet might actual…
You mean how like Apple was so original with an MP3 player?
You mean a compact music player with a 2.5" HDD, room for 5GB of music, with 20 minutes of skip protection, a FireWire port for 50MB per second transfer, a click wheel for navigation, and a user friendly interface?
Yes, that was pretty novel in 2002.
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#65Does anyone know the estimated retail price for it?
Probably in the iPad range, I can't imagine a successful tablet being more expensive than the iPad.
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#66This is seriously one of the most heavy handed, almost laughable attempts at being hip and cool I've ever seen. I thought it was a parody for a second.
Honestly could they scream any louder 'We are absolutely terrified of Apple. Please love us again.'
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#67Microsoft has a big event, announces new hardware and doesn’t announce price or availability?
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#68I don't see a sticker telling me what kind of processor is in inside, nor do I see a sticker telling me which version of Windows this is. I'm a bit confused.
Windows 8, Ivy Bridge i5. They are just doing the conference now so that may be why the details aren't up yet.
Heh, I think he was referencing the fact that nearly all consumer Windows devices are plastered with silly stickers.
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#692012 is the year third party OEMs start to go extinct. First (and always) Apple, now Microsoft, soon Google/Motorola. There may be some niche markets left over for third party OEMs but otherwise I think they're done. No wonder HP wanted out of the PC industry. Maybe they knew something we didn't?
IBM saw this coming 8 years ago.
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