Of course he would say that and the skateboard thing isn't impressive. You can stand on an empty soda can without crushing it if you balance yourself right.
Sinofsky: Surface 'best tablet, best laptop' he's ever used
After a brief pause for recuperation after the Windows 8 launch, Microsoft's Windows supremo Steven Sinofsky went straight out and started on Surface and how it measures up to competition. "It's not just a tablet. It's actually the best tablet that I've ever used," he said. "It's also not just a laptop, but it's the best …
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Thursday 25th October 2012 21:42 GMT Notas Badoff
We'd all be rail thin if...
PR people wrote everything we could read.
"The 10.6 inch Gorilla 2.0 glass is designed to be the perfect size to display the Windows OS ..."
How many times does someone have to practice saying things like this, before they can repress the urge to throw up?
This is almost as bad as Samsung's "made for humans". (Of course, what's the down-side? - I bought an S3 anyway)
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Thursday 25th October 2012 22:55 GMT RICHTO
Re: He would say that./
The Surface screen is higher quality with lower reflectivity, deeper blacks, and the resolution is enhanced by Clear Type, so there is little to choose between them in terms of the display. Plus all iPad applications actually run at 1024x768 anyway so that they can support the older iPads and the iPad mini.
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Thursday 25th October 2012 23:41 GMT GrantB
Re: He would say that./
"...all iPad applications actually run at 1024x768 anyway"
So confidently stated and yet so wrong:
http://appadvice.com/applists/show/apps-that-show-off-ipad-retina-display
But being a troll for MS, you wouldn't know about apps would you?
And as for ClearType magically giving the equivalent of 4x more pixels, you might want to look again:
http://www.osnews.com/story/25710/ClearType_dialled_back_in_Windows_8_s_Metro
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Thursday 25th October 2012 22:50 GMT Anonymous Coward
Shame
10.6 inch screen and a poor resolution compared to full size iPad. The bar has been set high by apple when it comes to screens and android tablets are finally stepping up to the plate but this Microsoft effort is still born.
It looks better than an iPad and it has some great built in features like the kick stand but their target market should have been people who didn't want the apple walled garden
Instead all they've done with RT is given them a different walled garden
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Thursday 25th October 2012 22:59 GMT RICHTO
Re: Shame
Erm - plus the Surface has support for 420 milion hardware devices at launch via USB, it runs MS Office, has a memory slot, has a 3mm thick keyboard cover, has faster performance than the iPad 3, has much higher build quality and doesnt break as easily, uses better case material, and it costs less for the equivalent memory spec. iPad 3 model....
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Friday 26th October 2012 05:12 GMT Anonymous Coward
Re: Shame
Erm - plus the Surface has support for 420 milion hardware devices at launch via USB, it runs MS Office
I could be wrong but all I see at launch is the windows RT version which I don't think will support 420 million hardware devices via USB.....
As for office well it runs a flavour of office but do you really think they'll give you all the candy on a machine like this?
All it will take is for google to release a version of that office suite they bought that works offline - quick office?! For android and then Microsoft have lost their USP
At launch all I see is a metro only RT device which is no better than the iPad for content creation despite the inclusion of office
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Friday 26th October 2012 08:37 GMT Anonymous Coward
Re: Erm - plus the Surface has support for 420 milion hardware devices at launch via USB
Erm, don't you remember recently how HP said they alone have 200 different laser printer models?
So it's not hard to imagine that many of those drivers are printers.
Apple managed to slim down their OS by a huge amount by downloading the printer drivers on demand, instead of bundling them.
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Friday 26th October 2012 00:52 GMT Anonymous Coward
Re: Shame
I agree a 1080p screen (or better) for Surface RT is desirable but realistically Tegra 3 isn't up to the job and Microsoft so far don't control the SoC so they had little choice for an October release. Apple have now played their A6 hole card early to regain a clear performance advantage but we can expect to see more Cortex-A15 announcements at CES January making 2013 an interesting year for Windows RT/Android/iOS competition on price and performance.
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Friday 26th October 2012 06:20 GMT Anonymous Coward
Business
The more I examine the varying decent in-depth reviews on windows8 (specifically winRT) and surface, the more it becomes clear that Microsoft is very much targeting the business market.
The iPad, despite being adopted by business to a degree, is more of an entertainment/consumption device.
Ditto for Android tablets such as the Nexus.
What Microsoft appear to aiming to do, is to bridge the gap between productivity and tablet devices.
Yes, we've joked that the surface is a confused device - "look, it's a notebook!" - "no, it's a tablet!" - but perhaps that's the right direction for Microsoft.
If the surface is a success, it will be in the Office and it will be "Office" that drives that success.
A device which can double up as both presentation - in boardrooms - and productivity - on the road - will appeal to businesses far more than one that is mostly presentation based.
I can't see the surface making much of an impact in the consumer market - not at it's price point and not with the iPad (at the same price point) so entrenched. Also, with a plethora of cheap and excellent Android tablets available, which are perfectly capable of filling the consumer middle-ground, Microsoft have to take the battle elsewhere.
I think they have. The reviews are mostly favourable. The OS gets a thumbs up, albeit with the caveat of a steep learning curve. The surface gets mixed reviews, but by all accounts is manages to hit the productivity sweet spot decently.
I hope it's a success. Although I use Linux and MacOS, I also use windows and I can see myself at work in a few years using Windows 8, possibly on a touch device.
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Friday 26th October 2012 06:42 GMT DF118
Meanwhile, over at the Graun....
Their coverage of the event was pure snark. Seems the Koolaid was completely the wrong colour for their tech "journalist".
Told them as much in the comments (in a jokey innocuous fashion) but they didn't like the criticism and nixed it within 20 minutes. Up until that point I had only been half serious about the Koolaid.