Every pixel on the display of the most up to date generation of Microsoft Area may virtually see the individual interaction thanks to the PixelSense modern technology.

Hands-on encounters of PixelSense are only accessible in the Samsung SUR40 for Microsoft Surface 2.0, and if you ever speculated merely just exactly what this development is everything about, then check out the live installed listed here.

Microsoft came up with the live to explain Microsoft Surface 2.0 PixelSense, supplying an unusual look at some of the wonderful thoughts behind the project.

"Microsoft's PixelSense, in the brand-new Samsung SUR40 for Microsoft Surface, enables a display to recognize hands, things, and fingers put on the display, making it possible for vision-based communication without the usage of video cameras. The individual pixels in the display see just what's touching the screen and that details is right away procedured and interpreted," Microsoft's Luis Cabrera specified.

Cabrera utilizes the eyes plus brain relation in order to discuss the idea of seeing pixels made possible by the mix of PixelSense and Microsoft Surface 2.0.

"You need both, interacting, to see. In this situation, the eye is the sensing unit in the panel, it picks up the image and it supplies that to the mind which is our eyesight input cpu that acknowledges the picture and does something with it. Taken in whole ... this is PixelSense innovation," he takes note.

The PixelSense eyes of the Samsung SUR40 LCD pixels can easily see not only fingers, yet also blobs, tags and things, as long as they can be found in consult with the display.

"IR back light unit supplies light (though the optical pieces, LCD and protection glass) that hits the get in touch with. Light mirrored back from the call is seen by the incorporated sensing units. Sensors transform the light signal in to an electric signal/value. Worths reported from all the sensors are made use of to develop a photo of exactly what is on the show," Cabrera discusses.

Such photos are evaluated by the hardware repeatedly once more, and only after its evaluated and know, does the COMPUTER at the heart of Microsoft Surface 2.0 obtain the info.

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Microsoft Surface Windows

Microsoft has announced the price of Surface Tablet PC Edition 8 Pro Windows. There are two models depending on the amount of built-in storage, 64GB model is $ 899, $ 999 if 128GB. Digitizer pen is a feature of the 8 Pro Windows version, but comes with cover Touch Cover / Type Cover with full keyboard is sold separately.


Surface of the tablet PC that Microsoft has developed, Surface with Windows 8 Pro is more of a tablet and the "full PC" compatible with the traditional Windows desktop apps.

10.6-inch diagonal screen size is not the same as Windows RT version that only runs Windows Store app, version 8 Pro Windows resolution is 1920 x 1080 Full HD, and also put the Intel Core i5 processor.

Up to 2560 x 14440 kickstand feature a 0.4mm thick chassis with magnesium vapor deposition VaporMg Microsoft's own recipe, is integrated with the rear of the unit, high-speed dual 2x2 MIMO WiFi antenna, full USB 3.0 port, Mini DisplayPort external monitor output (etc.) support. Less than 2 pounds (907g), body weight or less in thickness 14mm.

The main specifications storage 128GB HD Graphics 1920 x 1080 ClearType 10.6 inches LCD Full HD (10 points multi-touch, pen-enabled digitizer), Intel Core i5 processor third generation, the 4000 integrated graphics processor, 4GB RAM, or 64GB.

720p HD LifeCam web camera, stereo speakers, dual microphones 802.11a/b/g/n WiFi, Bluetooth 4.0 (corresponding Low Energy), the front and rear. Full-size USB 3.0, corresponding slots microSDXC, mini DisplayPort, connection port cover, and headphone jack. Battery 42Wh.

Surface with Windows 8 Pro will be released in January 2013.

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Ms Pixsel Sense

Know that it is the original name of the Microsoft Windows 8 tablet that Surface, the anecdote I thought it was aimed towards, the PC was brand of table type. Surface Pro nor any Surface Big, Surface over there, had become named of PixelSense10 + unawares. Of PixelSense10 + is the name of the technology to recognize in pixels was introduced as one of the reinforcement point when it was originally announced that the Surface 2.0 last year, what was put on the table.

For the next generation of Surface product name should have been called the Samsung SUR 40 for Microsoft Surface 2.0 along with this, has become a SUR 40 with Microsoft PixelSense of Sums10 + new name. Promotional video of the new name seems to have been posted on YouTube on June 18. The video posted on more. For sale in Japan this summer, I would like to wait for a follow-up in any case.

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Information about Microsoft Pixel Sense

 

Microsoft unveils major new  tablet stamped Microsoft  the publisher has done it again Wednesday with the news of its smartphone operating system, Windows Phone 8. Detailed review of this new OS.

Decidedly, this June is revealed dense sized events among tenors of the computer. After the announcements of new products from Apple, Microsoft unveiled its Surface touch-sensitive tablet on Monday, two days before holding a press conference for developers and to present the new version of its smartphone operating system, Windows Phone 8. The editor provides an update on the system platform without too much talk functions to the user.

The main information is that Windows CE, the kernel used to date for the mobile OS, is discarded. The new kernel will be exactly the same as Windows 8 will be found both on the tablet surface than on the PC. The file system and applications are identical, and drivers. Have chosen to unify the core is a real strategy for Microsoft. Thus, developers will not need to create applications for each type of system. The language used to create the programs will be the C language and C + + instead of the inevitable. Net. Direct X is also a native. The idea is to save time for developers to come easily offer their applications on the Marketplace. One way to rapidly increase in power. In addition, users can switch between a tablet PC or a smartphone, very flexible and easily share content between devices.
 

Finally, the microSD compatible and contactless payment

Material management side, while the specification was very tight for previous versions of Windows Phone, multicore processors are now supported. On the subject, rumors indicate that we should find mostly chips Qualcomm Snapdragon S4. Whereas previously it was strictly fixed at 512 MB, RAM onboard can be substantial. It is the same for memory storage once limited to 16 GB maximum. Now, it may be extended through, finally, a microSD card compatibility. Graphically, new definitions are available: 1280 x 768 pixels and 1280 x 720 pixels. Windows Phone also improves the management of multitasking. Instant messaging or voice over IP software will not be interrupted in case of appeal, as is the case now.

Like that offers Android (Google), wireless technology NFC will also be managed by Windows Phone 8. Practice to transfer documents to a person using a smartphone equipped and situated nearby. Knowing that one of the applications of NFC contactless payments, adds a module called Microsoft Wallet or "portfolio" in French. It is he who will store the virtual credit cards and possible coupons.

Security, there is also progress, since the content of mobile will be encrypted. Enough to meet the demands of professionals who shunned the smartphones running this system for this reason.

Windows Phone 8: a redesigned home screen

The publisher has also redesigned the interface of Windows Phone including the home page with its tile system. Now it will be possible to enlarge the size of the tiles, to give more importance to one than another tool. Tailor-made, ie.


This video shows the new home screen of Windows Phone 8. It features "tiles" which you can adjust the size depending on the applications you want to highlight.As for Windows 8, Windows Phone's browser Internet Explorer 8 will be 10. A version so mobile, that will manage the HTML 5. However, as a mapping software, Virtual Earth is abandoned in favor of Nokia Maps, the software house partner Microsoft.
 

It is on the field of speech recognition that Microsoft wanted to cross swords with Apple and its famous Siri. Unlike Siri which operates in closed circuit, the publisher will provide developers with the tools to create their own voice commands to enrich their applications.

Finally, regarding the updates of the system, no need to connect the phone to a PC and use Zune, as is the case with the current version of Windows Phone. The updates are now done with Wi-Fi

Microsoft has not yet given a release date of Windows Phone 8, but presumably it will be bundled with Windows 8 shooting in the fall. The publisher, however, comes the list of partners: Nokia, Samsung, HTC and Huawei.

After version 7.5 (Mango) who presented up to date Windows Phone with Windows Phone 8, the Redmond company is armed to regain ground against its two rivals Apple and Google. As he has done with the presentation of his house shelf space, Microsoft is well on land adventure novel, since Rick Sherlund, an influential analyst of the firm Nomura, Reuters has announced that Microsoft is currently developing its own smartphone with a phone manufacturer.

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Microsoft Surface on OEM

As the head of Microsoft's OEM division passes to other occupations, business partners from Redmond prove upset about the introduction of Surface. HP, for starters, will only x86 tablet.If Windows 8 is (to Redmond's own admission) a risky bet for Microsoft, the tablet Surface could go down in history as the point of friction largest ever reached by Redmond with the business strategies of its OEM partners.

There is an important first handover, in Redmond, its producers in the department: the corporate vice president Steven Guggenheimer leaves the management of the OEM division at Nick Parker (formerly vice president, sales division of the above) and move to a new role " senior "within the company, while Microsoft is quick to explain that it is a handover already planned for some time and made to coincide with the beginning of the fiscal year (July 1).

Èprobabile was all planned, but after the presentation of Surface signs of friction between the company and the manufacturers of Windows computers and gadgets are becoming more obvious: hitherto OEMs were studying the possibility and the opportunity to make tablet ARM Windows-based 8, but with the introduction of Surface such a possibility seems to be much more remote. Some people complain of the alleged double game made by Microsoft, which on one hand was helping the partners in finalizing the design of the next Windows-centric systems and in the meantime had been prepared to unveil "his" Surface to the general public.

And maybe it will not be open crisis, but at least one major manufacturer has already given on the tablet package Windows-ARM: Hewlett-Packard has declared its unwillingness to make a Windows Mobile 8 based on the chip, at least for now. For now, the American company will only produce a tablet / convertible for the business market, the spokesman explained.
 

Surface, Microsoft's tablet

Announcement in Los Angeles. Two versions, one an ARM and x86. Prices and availability to be determined, but the big jump in hardware testing BigM.Rome - The Italian night, afternoon in California, Microsoft has brought a carefully selected group of journalists in a Hollywood studios to show a novelty hitherto unsuspected: Redmond also has its tablet, actually has two, and are all called Surface.

Two versions, then: a CPU with ARM and x86 (Intel), or a tablet itself with similar capabilities to those far from Apple and its competitors Android, and one that embodies a different form-factor characteristics Hardware hitherto the prerogative of Ultrabook. 10-inch screen, HD for the ARM model (which is equipped with Windows 8 RT) and fullHD model for x86 (Windows Pro 8).

Surface is a complete hardware platform: the magnesium case is made specific and dedicated components, has an element that is "detached" from the bottom and it focuses on three hinges to become a support to hold the tablet vertically (Kickstand) There are a couple of covers / keyboard, a multitouch and a traditional design that complement and serve as a complete package.
 

Prices and launch date remains a mystery. Microsoft speaks generically of absolute competitiveness with the rest of the competitors, probably in the hope of not offering any discounts on the side (Google expected to launch its tablet later this month, Apple could decide to surprise everyone before Christmas).

Incredible level of secrecy maintained by Microsoft before this double launch: an operation worthy of Apple, because no one until now had never even speculated that Redmond could throw with such force in the hardware market. Certainly the hardware OEMs have not done anything to escape, although many in Asia have been involved in the work: and many of them will also be competing for tablet Surface, but Microsoft states that they will not be hindered in any way and enjoy the same type support hitherto granted to all partners.

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Microsoft Surface marks turning point

Microsoft Surface, Microsoft's tablet, was announced just a week, but details on its operation remain scarce and not very detailed. What seems definite is the opinion of technologists towards the new device. Surface, which has a version with Windows 8 and Windows RT, but it already seems clear that this device will mark a turning point for Microsoft, both positive and negative cases.

Of course, Microsoft has made great hardware in the past that have made it successful, but it does not seem to belong to these Surface: TheVerge fact writes that: "The announcement of Microsoft Surface has shown that it is ready for a historic step, a process that up to Microsoft has now seen supporting actor along with Dell, HP, Acer, "and which now will see the company run by Bill Gates alone. "This move may soon remove the historic partners in a short time." Continue Joshua Topolsky of The Verge, "but it could also give Microsoft something that desperately needs: a new chapter in its history."

As this story is clear, however, has yet to be understood. iPad, the comparison is inevitable, is a unique product, while the Surface already in two models with two different operating systems and two different processors, which could instill confusion among potential buyers of tablet less attentive.

On the other hand, the new tablet Microsoft could set a new standard in design, at present, is absent in all non-Apple tablet. "Other hardware manufacturers still produce tablet for Windows 8, as well as portable and desktop PCs, but Microsoft Surface could indeed dictate the standard for the desgin: it is the clearest demonstration of how Microsoft interprets the connection between your hardware and software, more than Dell, HP and other manufacturers have done so far, "says Joanna Stern of ABC News.
 

Regardless of how the Surface is competitive tablet market with iPad updated a few months and certainly the object of desire of all, there is no doubt that from June 18, Surface has become the focus of discussions. The advent of Microsoft tablet is very well seen especially among business users, as emphasized by Ced Kurtz Pittsburgh Post Gazette. "Business users know how to manage their communications networks, and may actually prefer a Microsoft tool rather than Applep er to continue their work. "

To critics, it is still waiting for some time, when the tablet is a product of Microsoft Surface cryptic and less available for testing.Los Angeles (California, USA), June 19 (LaPresse / AP) - Microsoft has introduced Surface in the night, tablet designed to rival Apple's iPad. He was Chief Executive Steve Ballmer to show the tablet to the public, defining it as part of "a whole new family of devices" that the company is developing. A version of the device, which will not be sold until at least autumn, is often 9.3 mm and mounts the Windows operating system RT. 

 

It is sold with a cover designed to support and hold him upright and a touch keyboard, which attach magnetically to the tablet. It weighs 680 grams and the price will be similar to that of other tablets already on the market. Its dimensions are similar to those of the last iPad, often little more than 9.4 mm and weighing 590 grams.Microsoft has also promised that, depending on the model chosen, the price of the Surface will be similar to the iPad, whose range goes from 499 to U.S. $ 829. The announcement of the Surface is accompanied by that of the new operating system Windows 8, designed with you in mind and that the tablet should be placed on the market in September or October.

 A second version of the Surface, slightly thicker and heavier, will be equipped with the Pro version of Windows 8 and will cost as much as a Ultrabook. In the box there will be a small pen that allows users to write down notes by hand on documents as PDF files. "It is a tablet that is also a great PC and a PC that is also a great tablet," said Steven Sinofsky, president of the Windows division of Microsoft, speaking of Surface. "We are saying that the world is different now and are trying to make it appealing to the brand new Microsoft," said analyst Carolina Milanesi, Gartner Inc.

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Microsoft Pixel Sense designed for Windows 8

 

Here is Microsoft Surface, the tablet designed for Windows 8. Microsoft is the second great revolution.It's called Surface, is a tablet. Unveiling the mysterious object in the night to Microsoft: a dedicated hardware to enhance the features of your operating system. "As Windows required a mouse so Windows 8 will have its own hardware," with these words Steve Ballmer, CEO of Microsoft made it clear yesterday in Los Angeles because of this second revolution. After opening with Smart Glass ecosystem of Xbox (platform games, music and video) to iPhone and iPad (and competing device) yesterday Microsoft has decided to produce a tablet following the example of Apple. 

Services and products designed to work better together: a mantra of Steve Jobs back in time and space from the origins of Microsoft, a company formed to sell software that has always left the task to hardware manufacturers to shape their own programs. "Consumers want to work and play, "said Ballmer, and the iPad tablet with Android are likely to take more and more large (have thought) so why not give them an item engineered to Window 8 - the latest version of the operating system coming to market autumn-with exclusive services and features? The images and videos shown suggest a tablet super slim (only 9.3 mm), lightweight (0.6 kg) with two USB ports (a curse for Apple) and replaceable (well not die with the product).

 A concrete tablet so for the man who still uses the keys for data and documents, or otherwise does not always intend to move to wireless or cloud to load content. The display is 10.6 inch, 16:9 Gallery_3_largeHd, two cameras and glass Gorilla Glass. Can stand alone (22 degrees), as seen from the images and will come with colorful keyboard (but it is too matter of taste, love the pastel colors in Redmond fired). Bloggers and magazines also argue that the U.S. will come with 64 GB memory and 128 GB. Other characteristics techniques will be announced later. Most curious are the producers of computers, like HP, Lenovo, Acer and Dell, which so far have designed their tablet thinking of Windows without the fear of finding Microsoft as a competitor. 

 

Apparently in Redmond have thought twice before betting on its own tablet. As we have thought before opening the Xbox platform to competitors. These two moves will certainly mark the first real big break came when Microsoft for the position more and more as a player, not just computing but also electronics.

Surely you have followed the official presentation of the network or have read some articles about what is Surface. A new tablet, innovative product from Microsoft itself, and of course that will mount the Windows operating system that seems to be born just 8 optimized for these new "mini computer". A 'Metro fully usable interface with a touch screen, more if a tablet with a screen over 10 inches. 

Surface presented in two different versions: the standard, called Surface RT for Windows and the other version, maybe more "advance" which took the name of Surface Differences Pro 8 for Windows, as well as nel'architettura processors, is all the hardware in the tablet. If the base version are USB 2.0, in that there will be a Pro 3.0, such as memory storage available: the basic version is maximized while the 64Gb Pro is also coming to 128GB.

After a few days after the official presentation of Surface, were communicated to those who should be the official prices which will be marketed devices. Prices fluctuate from 599 up to $ 799. The starting price is just what Windows RT while the tablet will cost 799 Pro and Windows 8 will be equipped with a respectable hardware that can compete with the major ultrabook currently on the market. Obviously, prices are subject to change delel, as the tablets are available in two "cuts", 32 and 64GB.

However, according to sources almost certain, Microsoft will not include in the purchase price of the tablet cover that showed during the presentation. It will be a choice to the user whether or not to buy the Touch Cover and Cover Type, choosing the color of choice among many presented. Attualmete Surface is not because the market expects the final version of Windows 8, which is slated for early or mid autumn. The Pro version will be launched about 3 months of difference to the RT version.

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