Microsoft announces Zune Tablet, 5 editions of Tablet OS

[Ns1]

The thing was supposed to start at 3:30, but you're going to have to wait until 5:20 to get any real information.

Different sets of people have different times on their cards. This event just got kind of like 'Lost.'

...

 

[Ns1]

oh shit, the punchline is coming

"Much like Windows 1 needed the mouse, we wanted to give Windows 8 it's own hardware."

"What is it? It's something new. Something different. A whole new family of computing devices from Microsoft."

 

[Lifted]

4:21:28 PM PDT "What is it? It's something new. Something different. A whole new family of computing devices from Microsoft."

4:21:45 PM PDT Oh boy. Video. Odd shape in the desert. Morphing... changing... like mirrored rocks.

4:21:52 PM PDT Surface!

4:21:59 PM PDT "This is the new Microsoft Surface."

4:22:08 PM PDT Steve is holding a tablet


🙄

 

[pelov]

7:26 PM | by seth.rosenblatt
Surface failed there, Sinofsky swapped for a new one.

Deja vu? Hahahaha

 

[Ns1]

"We said, why not do something with this surface? We made it a full multitouch keyboard." Whoa, people are hooting.

well, that's interesting.

 

[Skel]

well, that's interesting.

That's pretty sweet really

 

[Chrono]

whoa!

 

[Ns1]

That's pretty sweet really

sure is. the second half of this presentation is getting interesting.

this + win8 w/ pen support (assuming there's a digitizer in there somewhere) and I'm sold.

 

[SunnyD]

2 versions - second is an Intel powered x86 version running Win8 Pro (NOT the RT version). Now I'm interested.

 

[GrumpyMan]

A new tablet on the market, this is earth shattering.........yawn....

 

[Ns1]

2 versions - second is an Intel powered x86 version running Win8 Pro (NOT the RT version). Now I'm interested.

what's the difference?

 

[The_Dude8]

what's the difference?

the price. I wonder how much does it costs when it's launch. I hope it's not like $500 like when the zoom first came out.

 

[SunnyD]

what's the difference?

Presumably the ability to run x86 Windows "desktop" apps? (Assuming there's some way to sideload them at least)

 

[Crono]

This is what I was waiting for.

 

[pelov]

what's the difference?

ARM vs. x86.

The tablet he's holding is an i5 IB ULV meaning it will cost about three-thousand dollars.

 

[Ns1]

ooooh shit it's over!!

Pen input. Digital Ink.

"This surface has two digitizers. One for touch, one for digital ink. It sees the proximity of the pen and stops taking hand inputs."

DO WANT (as long as it's ~$500).


This is the tablet I've been waiting for.

 

[Glitchny]

This is interesting. I want to see how much they are selling these for.

 

[Hugo Drax]

ARM vs. x86.

The tablet he's holding is an i5 IB ULV meaning it will cost about three-thousand dollars.

Naw, probably 1900-2000 USD.

Should sell like hotcakes.

 

[Dominato3r]

This is what I was waiting for.

Same. They've had a ton of blogposts in the past talking about how much research and development they've put into digitalink, and OneNote has only gotten better. This is awesome.

 

[Ns1]

skip over the rest of the presentation and go straight into pricing plz.

 

[The_Dude8]

Naw, probably 1900-2000 USD.

Should sell like hotcakes.

that's too expensive for the average consumers. If they price it that high, ppl will get the new MB pro with the new retina.

 

[Glitchny]

Isn't this going to piss off pretty much all of the MS hardware vendors?

 

[sactoking]

Isn't this going to piss off pretty much all of the MS hardware vendors?

Maybe, but what are they going to do, make Apple hardware? (rhetorical)

 

[Hugo Drax]

Isn't this going to piss off pretty much all of the MS hardware vendors?

Why? It is not like they are doing much of anything in the Tablet space for Microsoft.

 

[Skel]

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

The website is already up with the downloadable specs

Let me rephrase that.. some of the specs.