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Microsoft Announces Surface: New Family of PCs for Windows
Microsoft.com ^ | 18 Jun 2012 | MS

Posted on 06/19/2012 10:05:11 AM PDT by for-q-clinton

LOS ANGELES — June 18, 2012 — Today at an event in Hollywood, Microsoft unveiled Surface: PCs built to be the ultimate stage for Windows. Company executives showed two Windows tablets and accessories that feature significant advances in industrial design and attention to detail. Surface is designed to seamlessly transition between consumption and creation, without compromise. It delivers the power of amazing software with Windows and the feel of premium hardware in one exciting experience.

(Excerpt) Read more at microsoft.com ...


TOPICS: Business/Economy; News/Current Events; Technical
KEYWORDS: ipadkiller; microsoft; windows; zunekiller
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Windows 8 is looking good to me.

1 posted on 06/19/2012 10:05:24 AM PDT by for-q-clinton
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To: for-q-clinton

http://www.microsoft.com/surface/en/us/default.aspx


2 posted on 06/19/2012 10:06:14 AM PDT by for-q-clinton (If at first you don't succeed keep on sucking until you do succeed)
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3 posted on 06/19/2012 10:07:24 AM PDT by for-q-clinton (If at first you don't succeed keep on sucking until you do succeed)
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4 posted on 06/19/2012 10:09:09 AM PDT by for-q-clinton (If at first you don't succeed keep on sucking until you do succeed)
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To: for-q-clinton

These should be a natural for business since there won’t be the compliance problems that some other tablets bring.


5 posted on 06/19/2012 10:11:55 AM PDT by driftdiver (I could eat it raw, but why do that when I have a fire.)
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To: for-q-clinton

Hope it does better than all its other Apple “killers” that failed miserably.


6 posted on 06/19/2012 10:13:07 AM PDT by mgstarr ("Some of us drink because we're not poets." Arthur (1981))
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To: for-q-clinton

Except for the dark gray one, those keyboards are ugly.


7 posted on 06/19/2012 10:13:43 AM PDT by Izzy Dunne (Hello, I'm a TAGLINE virus. Please help me spread by copying me into YOUR tag line.)
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To: driftdiver

This will probably run all the viruses that iPad just won’t run...


8 posted on 06/19/2012 10:15:22 AM PDT by Izzy Dunne (Hello, I'm a TAGLINE virus. Please help me spread by copying me into YOUR tag line.)
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To: for-q-clinton

I’m waiting for the Kindle Fire 2 which should be out in Sept.


9 posted on 06/19/2012 10:24:33 AM PDT by Signalman ( November, 2012-The End of an Error)
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To: Izzy Dunne

And after 3 windows updates it will be slower than a snail. Will the BSD look the same on this one?


10 posted on 06/19/2012 10:25:17 AM PDT by tazman3
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To: ShadowAce

For your tech Ping list.


11 posted on 06/19/2012 10:29:04 AM PDT by CedarDave
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To: for-q-clinton
Comments are already negative:

Windows 8 Consumer Preview - One word: fail (hilarious rant)

12 posted on 06/19/2012 10:30:44 AM PDT by CedarDave
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That’s the beauty of this...everyone can get the color they like.


13 posted on 06/19/2012 10:31:10 AM PDT by for-q-clinton (If at first you don't succeed keep on sucking until you do succeed)
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To: Las Vegas Dave

Hi Dave, FYI Ping!


14 posted on 06/19/2012 10:33:06 AM PDT by Las Vegas Ron (Rush Limbaugh = the Beethoven of talk radio - http://www.istandwithrush.org/)
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Yeah right....read the responses to that guys rant. He’s clearly a fanboy for a non-MS competitor.

I’ve been using windows 8 and got to say it’s good. The one thing holding it back is I need a tablet to really take advantage of the touch UI. Once I have that then it will be awesome.

I remember the iPad got bad remarks when it was announced too. But then people “got it” once they held it.


15 posted on 06/19/2012 10:33:43 AM PDT by for-q-clinton (If at first you don't succeed keep on sucking until you do succeed)
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To: CedarDave

Microsoft should stick to its core competencies; and hopefully they can figure out what those are.


16 posted on 06/19/2012 10:38:55 AM PDT by mgstarr ("Some of us drink because we're not poets." Arthur (1981))
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Microsoft may have shot themselves in the foot.

Don’t they understand that when they compete with their own customers in the industry, their customers will STOP doing business with them? What other manufacturer is going to build a competing tablet/desk/something top when the supplier of the OS is competing with them for the same customers, and has an advance knowledge of upcoming improvements to the OS, and reference designs? It’s a no win situation for the competitors.

As for the keyboard in the cover. I had one for my iPad... I don’t use it any more. I found that when I wanted to use it, I had to find a table or flat surface to put it on. That was inconvenient, and got in the way of using the iPad. I have a folding prop cover for my iPad... I never use it either. It is not necessary. It also is not something one finds necessary in the way one uses a tablet. What I see in the Surface is that Microsoft is stuck in the notebook paradigm.


17 posted on 06/19/2012 10:39:52 AM PDT by Swordmaker (This tag line is a Microsoft insult free zone... but if the insults to Mac users continue...)
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To: for-q-clinton

A tablet that doubles as a laptop? That’s a winning idea, especially for business. This could be a breakthrough product for Microsoft; number three behind the iPhone and iPad in terms of recent game-changers.


18 posted on 06/19/2012 10:40:57 AM PDT by St_Thomas_Aquinas (Viva Christo Rey!)
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To: for-q-clinton

On a tablet maybe. On a computer it blows massive chunks.


19 posted on 06/19/2012 10:41:34 AM PDT by discostu (Listen, do you smell something?)
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To: Izzy Dunne

Unfortunately for you the iPad cannot be made compliant. It just doesn’t provide the controls necessary for corporations who must meet PCI, FISMA, or HIPAA compliance.

It does provide many of those pesky security risks that even Apple has communicated. too bad so sad


20 posted on 06/19/2012 10:41:53 AM PDT by driftdiver (I could eat it raw, but why do that when I have a fire.)
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