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.