Engadget - Here at its mysterious, last-minute press event in Los Angeles, Microsoft just confirmed it will sell its own Microsoft-branded Windows 8 tablet under the Surface badge. Measuring just 9.3mm thick, it's built around an angled, all-magnesium VaporMag case that weighs just under 1.5 pounds. Microsoft's hardware partners have also gone all-out on extra touches, such as a built-in stand, twin 2x2 MIMO antennas for WiFi, and an optically-bonded display.
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I mean why did it HAVE to be announced today? It has no price, no in-depth details, no integration with any of their products were talked about, no smartglass demo, nothing. They would have been better off announcing it later with all these details, and making it available rather fast. In otherwords pulling a page from Apple's book.
As for the tablet itself, from what we know SO FAR, its nothing special.....they spent most of their time on a peripheral for it....I still see absolutely no reason for me to leave my laptop and get a tablet, it has a keyboard that works perfectly fine.
Heres article that explains the Surface tablet
http://www.androidauthority...
i say 100-200 for instant market impact.
they should learn something from vizio, tablet market is very easy to disrupt if you come in with a quality product.
Wowza, now this is the tablet I can get behind. The thought of having a tablet that is this thin and light but also has full Windows behind it AND a Core i5 Ivy Bridge processor is incredibly appealing. The keyboard cover is nearly as exciting as the tablet itself. And thinner than the iPad? MS is really changing the game.
Oh and a bit off topic, but there is already an ad for it on youtube. MS must have gotten a new marketing team because it looks awesome.
I also think MS are doing the right thing announcing the tablet now as its MS keeping everyone in the know that they are having some big products out this year. Everyone is still talking about Smart Glass and as people were turning to IOS6 MS has hit us with this and are now people are talking about MS again. Next is Google but after that MS are talking about Windows Phone 8 so MS are now doing what they should have been doing for years and that is showing off there products to the main media and making a buzz about there products.
I really like the way MS are going Windows 8, 360 smart glass, Windows Phone and now a hardware tablet to go with it I can see MS starting to push Apple and Android out of the tablet space again over the next 5 years or so.
My big dilemma is whether or not to buy the AMD and a Macbook Air, or just the Intel one.
As for the KIN. This was based on the Wimo 6.5 technology that MS were killing off anyway with Windows 7 and they did not push it at all and decided to drop it because it was never going to be a success and like any company they dropped it and cut there losses but how many people bought them to care?
Also if you can not see what MS are doing your either a Apple/Android Fan boy or just hate ms for some unknown reason.
@techspce Why do you have a dilemma for me I think its going to be the Pro version of surface and this will replace my laptop and tablet I don't see the point of having a ultra book or a MacBook if I have a Intel based tablet as it will work just like my laptop dose now only a lot more portable.
I do think with what MS are showing off this is the start of them cutting sales of laptops at home down by half ide say as most home user will use there laptop for just browsing the web and storing there documents with the odd bit of printing and use of office.
MS have needed to get out of its old days from when vista came out and I think they have now done this they now have a set of devices that all work in more or less the same way and look a lot like each other and also very easy to use. MS is now all about Windows Phone, Windows 8 and xbox for home users and I think all 3 products are very good and quality looking products too.
I really do think Apple and Google now have some work to do to stop MS becoming the main company again in those three areas.