Nvidia CEO: We Are Working On Next Generation Surface

UnknowingFool writes "CEO Jen-Hsun Huang has told CNET that Nvidia is working with Microsoft on the next generation of Surface tablets. While sales of the first generation have been poor, Huang believes the second generation will be more successful with the inclusion of Outlook."

Will it run Linux?

[gmuslera]

They should focus in making hardware and drivers for everything, if people don't like the included OS, should be able to change it for something else (android, ubuntu touch, plasma active, whatever). If its only for Microsoft, their are tying their ship to the Titanic, just after it hit the iceberg.

Re:let it run win 32 apps ccompiled for ARM

[Chas]

Metro apps are how Microsoft is going to let go of their Win32 legacy.

So we can revert to the multitasking equivalent of 1980's offerings.

How about "NO"?

How about "HELL NO"?

How about "HELL FUCKING NO"?

Metro apps are a colossal, leap (with rocket assist) BACKWARD in interface technology.

You can cry all you want about "old code" and "spaghetti code". But simply being newer, possibly cleaner, code doesn't make it better.

Re:From the summary:

[bobjr94]

Yes, I would buy a surface if it had outlook..Said no one ever Hopefully Nvidia will get paid for some kind of guaranteed minimum sales from MS, so when it flops worse than the 1st model they won't be out millions in r&d and dead stock.

It's getting sad

[jomama717]

I was at a mall this evening and though it was funny that the little kiosk that used to demo the Surface Pro/RT was gone...until my wife pointed out that it's because they just opened a "Microsoft Store". I had to see it, and sure enough it was an incredibly thorough facsimile of an apple store, except the "geniuses" (I wonder what they call them...) had purple shirts, and of course there was microsoft crap on all of the extremely well-lit Ikea-esque tables instead of apple crap.

I'm kind of a bystander in the MS/Apple flamewar (for work and personal use I have a suped-up macbook pro that runs a Windows7 VM) but the sight of this down to the wood-grain copy of an Apple store just made me feel pity for Microsoft. I mean, jesus, it was already clear that their business model since the Zune has been "do what apple does, seems to work", but this place takes it to a new level.

I like Windows7, I loved my xbox (until I had a kid and gave it to a cousin after 2 years of non-use), they can do some shit right and should accentuate that instead of this across the board pathetic strategy of Apple emulation. After all, the sincerest form of flattery is imitation, as they say. I just don't get it.

Microsoft are becoming the gobots to Apple's transformers.

Re:From the summary:

[bloodhawk]

Is the ipad Mail app seriously THAT bad? I haven't used it, used the surface RT mail app when it came out that it was the thing that stopped me buying a surface RT, if the Ipad one is similar that is just sad. Outlook on the RT would have made it viable for me at the time I was considering it.

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