Two videos in one day! Boy Microsoft are spoiling us. This one shows the Surface tablet and a few of it’s features. Nothing astounding really but interesting if your like me and you’ve pre-ordered a Surface.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yswUFCD1x0A
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October 17, 2012
Enlightening video – it looks far worse than I thought!
The “Modern UI” looks nice, but then you go through to a standard Windows Desktop?!
The iPad’s going to eat it for breakfast!
On RT you’ll really only hit the desktop to do office or file management (and to be honest you probably won’t do a lot of file management) and some deeper control panel stuff (which is a bit clunky I suppose!), the rest is all apps (or should be).
On the full Windows 8 tablets, well the fact that you can go through to the desktop is part of the point…
With reference to the iPad, erm, maybe. The iPad is a really nice piece of technology but one can make a fairly reasonable argument that the Windows 8/RT implementation (and also WP7/WP8) is an improvement in terms of the touch-centric user experience and in terms of build one hopes (having pre-ordered!) that what MS have produced in the surface is on a par.
If I were a betting person… well I’m glad I’m not – I think RT devices may struggle unless they’re both cheap and fast (this is the issue with ~10″ Android devices – you can have cheap /or/ fast). I want something iPad like without having to buy into the apple ecosystem and a surface will give me that but I’m not sure I’m representative. OTOH I think that we’re going to see a lot of hybrid pc devices – once they start hitting the right price points and that in turn leads to a massive market for apps (which, in a virtuous circle, will run on RT and probably, with minimal effort, on a WP8 too)
Why would you pre-order? Crazy fool 🙂 This is a MICROSOFT product, you have to wait for at least 3 Service Packs before venturing …