Microsoft Now Has the Best Device Lineup in the Industry (char.gd) 219
An anonymous reader shares commentary on the new devices Microsoft unveiled Tuesday: At a low-key event held in a New York City warehouse, Microsoft unveiled its next iterations in the Surface lineup. Sitting in the audience, I saw the most coherent device strategy in the industry, from a company that's slowly built a hardware business from the ground up. The company took just an hour to unveil sweeping updates to its existing hardware, and what's clear after the dust has settled is that Microsoft's hardware division is a force to be reckoned with. Apple's dominance on the high-end laptop space looks shakier than ever, because Microsoft's story is incredibly compelling. Rather than building out a confusing, incompatible array of devices, Microsoft has taken the time to build a consistent, clear portfolio that has something to fit everyone across the board.
[...] What's interesting about this is the Surface hardware is now incredibly consistent across the board, making it dead simple for consumers to choose a device they like. Each device offers high quality industrial design, with consistent input methods regardless of form factor, and a tight software story to boot. That matters. Every single one of these machines has a touchscreen, supports a high-quality stylus, and current generation chipsets. The only question is which device fits your lifestyle, and whether or not you want the faster model. The peripherals work across every machine, and Microsoft has clearly gone to lengths with Timeline and Your Phone to make the software as seamless as you'd expect in 2018. Microsoft, it seems, has removed all of the barriers to remaining in your 'flow.' Surface is designed to adapt to the mode you want to be in, and just let you do it well. Getting shit done doesn't require switching device or changing mode, you can just pull off the keyboard, or grab your pen and the very same machine adapts to you. It took years to get here, but Microsoft has nailed it. By comparison, the competition is flailing around arguing about whether or not touchscreens have a place on laptops. The answer? Just let people choose.
[...] What's interesting about this is the Surface hardware is now incredibly consistent across the board, making it dead simple for consumers to choose a device they like. Each device offers high quality industrial design, with consistent input methods regardless of form factor, and a tight software story to boot. That matters. Every single one of these machines has a touchscreen, supports a high-quality stylus, and current generation chipsets. The only question is which device fits your lifestyle, and whether or not you want the faster model. The peripherals work across every machine, and Microsoft has clearly gone to lengths with Timeline and Your Phone to make the software as seamless as you'd expect in 2018. Microsoft, it seems, has removed all of the barriers to remaining in your 'flow.' Surface is designed to adapt to the mode you want to be in, and just let you do it well. Getting shit done doesn't require switching device or changing mode, you can just pull off the keyboard, or grab your pen and the very same machine adapts to you. It took years to get here, but Microsoft has nailed it. By comparison, the competition is flailing around arguing about whether or not touchscreens have a place on laptops. The answer? Just let people choose.
Must be an ad (Score:5, Informative)
Does not seem legit.
Re:Must be an ad (Score:5, Insightful)
Does not seem legit.
Painfully obvious advertisement paid article/post. Come on Slashdot, at least TRY to make your ads less obvious.
I miss the good old days when Slashdot wasn't as obvious a sell out.
Re:Must be an ad (Score:5, Insightful)
The sad thing is, they still run windows....
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With caveats yes. For example the GPU in the performance base of my Surface Book does not work. However I only have that as I wanted the 1TB disk, so that it does not work is meh for me. On the plus side the cameras dont work, which saves me putting tape over them. In the end I purchased it for the screen, and it is gorgeous. Everything else works, though to be fair I dont use the pen either or the touch screen either but they do work. I do however use the ability to undock the keyboard, turn it round and have the laptop as a sort of tablet thing, which i can the drop in this nice oak dock thing on my desk to make it easier to use a real keyboard, becuase fuck Apple and their chicklet crap.
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No, I don't mean running Linux inside windows, I mean like on a normal computer where you can completely wipe windows off the box, and install linux as the primary OS.
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Depends I guess on the type of work you want to get done.
I use my Mac devices mostly for photos and videos...and they work great. I love using Affinity Photo on my iPad pro when away from the work station and I can get a LOT done on that....etc.
I couldn't ask for better 'pen' support on the iPad Pro and I use my wacom tablet all the time on my workstation I have set up.....so, lots o
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Does not seem legit.
Painfully obvious advertisement paid article/post. Come on Slashdot, at least TRY to make your ads less obvious.
I miss the good old days when Slashdot wasn't as obvious a sell out.
The good old days of what, 1995?
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It's just one web sites opinion, nothing more. The conclusions aren't supported by the article. When it talks about Microsoft havng the best strategy in the industry I can only conclude that "the industry" means Windows 10 based touch screen tablet/laptop hybrids. It basically just says that they have smaller and larger versions available, same as any PC maker.
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You are right, across the board.
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I never even heard of "char.gd" before today, much less the free-lance stooge supplying articles to them. He criticizes Apple for not having touchscreen on the Macbooks, even though many prefer it that way. What makes sense on a tablet doesn't translate to a desktop or laptop. He talks about "our industry" without defining what that is (presumably it means Owen and his friends on Windows platforms).
Being excited about a "lineup" isn't that useful. So they have slight variants but they're all essentially
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The competition here should not be Macbooks. The competition are the other PC makers, Dell, Lenovo, etc.
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Man sometimes people on here are like not in the real world. School districts use them pretty extensively. One in town has hundreds if not thousands for all their staff. We have about 20 of the devices in our company. From surface pro3 all the way to surface laptops. I see people at coffee shops with them all the time. Maybe its just your city that people don't have them in. They are a more expensive device that you would see more downtown and less in the suburbs.
My opinion having worked with them daily for over 3 years now is that they are amazing devices, but have extremely poor reliability long term.
First as for use, the ability to touch the screen all the time is something that i find myself missing when i have to switch to an old school laptop. I have used acer and asus laptops and dont find the touch done as well on those. I carry it around when i am away from my desk and its great to be able to quickly flip it open and turn something off or on, or edit switch configs in the field with a very small device that is quite snappy and full featured. They put some good hardware in there, in terms of performance.
As for reliability, all but one of our surface pro 3's has failed in some way. Most multiple times, and in the first year i think all had to be RMA'ed under warranty. Mostly this is because they over heat, sometimes the screen becomes unresponsive, and definitely at least 4 drop incidents have occurred where the screen cracked (A $600 fix). I have had some DOA as well. I have one that has a persistant USB port failure, and another that overheats and locks up when its sleeping (but performs fine if you shut it down as opposed to letting it go to sleep.
The surface laptops are somewhat newer, and not as many problems with them, but we did have one DOA unit out of the 7 or so we purchased. Microsoft store swapped it no questions asked though. I had a docking station that didnt output two display port outputs like it was supposed to as well, also swapped at MS store with zero hassles. When we purchased the surface pro 4, all had to be sent back for a manufacturing defect (recall) within the first month. But we got those right when they came out, like first units off the truck.
So in conclusion, i would recommend that if you have money and don't mind the fact that they are fragile and wont last more than 3 years, that one should purchase it. Like if you dont bat an eye about spending $1500 on a laptop every 3 years i would say definitely buy. The features they have and the lightweightedness and portability and convenience make up for the durability problems. Especially if its a corporate device where its not actually your money. Dropping it and having to spend $600 would be pretty brutal for a home user, with very few self repair options (they are more like a phone, or mac in this respect).
But they don't deserve all the hate i am seeing in this thread. If they were $400 bucks i would probably buy a few for home use. They are a great little package and everyone that uses one comments on how nice it is. Reliability is definitely an issue though, but less important for a business where you are swapping out old equipment for new usually after 3 years anyway.
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Microsoft isn't selling any of the Surface stuff. They are shipping it, but it isn't selling.
This gets funnier the more you post it because every time you do MS is rolling in more silly amounts of money.
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but it isn't selling
Isn't selling? I had a Surface Pro 2013 - I'm writing this on a Surface Pro 2017.
These gadgets are everywhere - At airports, coffee shops, train stations and universities - All over my office and every offsite meeting I attend at other companies. Everywhere you look where people have devices open and there's a bunch of Surfaces.
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They have some sales, better than I'd imagined.
But the headline and the content is a puff piece. And you'd get lots of great arguments from other vendors as to why their machines are not only better, but more cost effective and better-designed.
C'mon Slashdot. This isn't the place for vendor hubris.
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I've seen them, but they're rare. I haven't heard of them as a corporate recommended solution for generic employees, though I don't doubt that exists at some places. The market has changed so that laptops are not longer the high end luxury devices but have become mainstream, so that even entry level employees now get a laptop (and monitor) instead of a desktop.
But if you were going to buy a fleet of laptops for your employees that will last 5 years then is the Surface really a viable solution? Coolness i
Re: Hilarious (Score:3)
At least in part, it is because they force their channel to grow their inventories, same trick the Apple did to big retailers: you either buy a million units 6 months ahead, or we will not sell you it at all.
Define "best" (Score:5, Insightful)
Define "best" -- it's hardly the most rugged, repairable, or upgradeable hardware. It's designed to become e-waste when the glued-in internal battery dies, while I'm typing this on a 6 year old laptop that's modular.
Stop using weight as an argument -- you're talking maybe 0.5lb difference between a glued-shut Surface with keyboard and a relative modular Thinkpad or Dell ultralight.
Re:Define "best" (Score:4, Insightful)
What, you're looking for specifics and justification of claims in one of the most clearly obvious astroturf posts there ever has been?
The first paragraph must have been hard to type with Microsoft's metaphorical balls in the author's mouth.
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The ultra light computers aren't the average computers. They do well but they go to executives or employees who are on the road a lot. If you were going to marry yourself to a single PC maker, then Microsoft isn't going to be supplying the whole range of employee computers for the enterprise (and that's not counting servers and lab computers).
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No longer supported with replacement parts (Score:2)
Uh, what reason do you have to throw away your "tech"?
Manufacturer no longer making replacement battery packs for a device powered by a rechargeable battery is one reason. That's why I replaced a Dell laptop after about 7 years: its included battery, the first replacement battery, and the second replacement battery could no longer hold a charge. Or should end users be expected to learn how to replace the individual cells in a laptop's lithium battery pack?
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I just upgraded my Laptop. My previous one was 7 years old. I then clear that laptop and did a clean reinstall on it, and gave it to a friend, for her it was a significant upgrade to a 12 year old netbook that she was using. My old laptop probably has another 6 years of useful life on it.
I primarily upgraded myself because I wanted to learn and perfect GPU coding. So I got a laptop with a higher end video card. This new laptop may last me 10 years.
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My ~5 year old HP laptop was slowing down and had frequent glitches with the Wifi disconnecting. I bought it a new SSD and did a fresh install of Windows 7. The SSD much improved speed, as did wiping out whatever garbage had built up in the registry. My Wifi problem is gone. It's almost like a new (not the newest, but newer) machine.
Back in the Win 9x and XP days, I'd reinstall Windows every year or so just to clear out cruft and keep the performance up. Windows 7 was a big improvement, but it looks like it
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Oddly enough the reason she needed to get off the netbook was because the cooling fan broke, it wasn't worth the hassle of replacing it.
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I was always impressed by what I could do with my little EEE. For a while when I was traveling I would run a script to convert 1080p videos and it actually was pretty decent at doing the conversions. For the time it was a great option.
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My Surface Pro 3 is working just fine, thank you. No need to replace it.
My dell E6440 also is doing what I need it to do. My old Asus G50-VT not so much, but it comes out of storage to solve problems whenever, and works fine.
My wife's HP G62 she's convinced is pus, it won't print more than 5 pages of a ppt file at a time, and it loses edits.
And the newly acquired mid-2013 MacBook Air is purely marvelous, cheap and totally functional on Mojave.
New PC hardware is a little like new cars. Depreciation and marg
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Well, at work we are eligible for a new computer after three years. Many people just keep the old computers longer rather than go through the hassle of getting a new one. Two years sounds like some over funded startup to me.
Space and weight doesn't mean much if the laptop is on your desk 99% of the time. And if you're keeping that laptop for several years then you want one that will last.
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I have never had to 'throw away' a laptop after two years. Never. All have lasted longer, even the unfortunate Toshiba models. But I repaired many for clients, and mostly it was rough handling that did them in fatally. For a while it was clogged ventilation and bad hard drives. Now it's back to rough handling, since the displays are still mostly glass.
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You don't need tariffs if you stop buying that junk.
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Hm. I made a living for a few years repairing laptops for clients. Yes, back then it was equal parts hard drives and display hinges. Even today you can repair a surprising fraction of the popular machines.
The thinnest and lightest, of course are a challenge. I'm waiting for my Surface Pro 3 to come off extended warranty and fail so I can try.
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In the enterprise though the cost of these fancy high end laptops adds up. So there is a need for laptops (which have replaced desktops as prices dropped) which can last longer, survive a drop or two, and had have some replaceable components (batteries and storage).
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"CD"? You should be so lucky.
The hell... (Score:5, Insightful)
...kind of marketing drivel is this?
Re:The hell... (Score:5, Insightful)
I especially like this:
By comparison, the competition is flailing around arguing about whether or not touchscreens have a place on laptops. The answer? Just let people choose.
So I can choose to pay for a touchscreen I'll never use, and can accept accidental input I don't want; but I'll bet I can't choose what OS I want installed on this thing due to having to fuck about with SecureBoot, weird partitioning schemes that no other bootloader wants to deal with, proprietary crap hardware that doesn't have drivers in any other OS but the latest spyware^H^H^H^H^H^H Windows 10 edition.
It's a laptop. I don't want a touchscreen, and in fact turned off the one I have because it's annoying and ergonomically terrible on a laptop.
It's a laptop. I don't want a stylus because it's even more ergonomically terrible than a touchscreen.
I'm glad you are including choice when it allows you to raise the price and include more margin, but not when it comes to the things that actually matter to people.
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My brother-in-law has one. Whoop de do. Underpowered, overpriced. Just like Apple!
I would rather have a laptop with serious computing power when I need it, portable, and available. The Dell XPS 15 fits this bill nicely. And when in an office, including my home office, the display is secondary because, gasp, I have a 4k display on my desk that is 3x the size of a laptop display. Fat lot of fucking good a touchscreen does when you are plugged into a much larger, nicer display with a real keyboard and mo
Don't trust them... (Score:4, Funny)
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Mine doesn't. Your ancedotal proof is invalidated.
SO, everyone, start keeping score.
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Is this better, ya wanker?
Verge Article [theverge.com]
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Sure. no numbers, but that's no problem...
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Give them 5 more years in the hardware industry
Another 5? Shit how much longer?
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Is /. on giant ad service now? (Score:2)
... or have I just been asleep at the wheel while it changed slowly?
This kind of BS seems like the norm nowadays. Yawn.
For certain users, sure (Score:5, Insightful)
First, the layout of windows 10 / windows server 12 (and newer) is, IMHO, a total disjointed eye-gouging mess. It borders on unusable. The interface consistently gets in my way when I want to do things that were very simple in earlier versions of windows (for example starting a command prompt). The default color scheme is so awful it could well be a violation of the Geneva Convention.
Second, their obsession with touchscreens is great for people who don't actually do any real work. Oddly enough I do actual work with my computers, and I find touchscreens to be maddening devices. Why do I want fingerprint smears all over my screen? On top of that a touchscreen is more an impediment to actual work than a tool for it; this mirrors well with my observations that when people are using touchscreens on a laptop they almost without exception are goofing off; they go back to an actual pointing device for actual work.
Third, touchpads are garbage. The Apple touchpad is almost a valid pointing device but only just. Microsoft doesn't want to sell anything with a useful pointing device; users respond by buying mice to use with their Microsoft laptops and tablets.
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I'm SO glad I'm not alone in my cranky old codger ways...
I think I'll perform a happy dance the day the sell a smartphone with hardware keyboard and trackpoint...
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That was 2008. Oh, wait, the trackpoint was actually a ball...
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The interface consistently gets in my way when I want to do things that were very simple in earlier versions of windows (for example starting a command prompt).
Opening a command line in W10 is simply right click the windows menu button (or press Win+X), and click "PowerShell" or "PowerShell (Admin)" (I think there's a setting to replace this with the old-school command line if you really want). Or tap the windows key, then type "cmd" as though it were a command line itself. Or win+R and type "cmd" into the Run menu (it stores history so if a command line was your last command, it's just Win+R, Enter). That last has been how I've opened command lines since XP, the
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Opening a command line in W10 is simply right click the windows menu button (or press Win+X), and click "PowerShell" or "PowerShell (Admin)" (I think there's a setting to replace this with the old-school command line if you really want). Or tap the windows key, then type "cmd" as though it were a command line itself. Or win+R and type "cmd" into the Run menu (it stores history so if a command line was your last command, it's just Win+R, Enter). That last has been how I've opened command lines since XP, the second has been there since I think Vista, and IIRC the first is a new addition (maybe was in W8?).
When I press the windows button, windows redraws my entire damned display with useless icons and grinds to a halt while it tries to predict what I'm typing. We used to push the windows button to pop up a quick an unobtrusive start menu, from where I could easily hit "r" for run.
I think it's more that it's designed for higher-resolution screens than older OSes. W10 looks fine as a desktop OS, provided you're on a 1080p screen or higher.
Once you've switched it to a non-nauseating theme, it almost doesn't look like total garbage. The default theme is a crime against humanity.
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When I press the windows button, windows redraws my entire damned display with useless icons and grinds to a halt while it tries to predict what I'm typing. We used to push the windows button to pop up a quick an unobtrusive start menu, from where I could easily hit "r" for run.
Once you've switched it to a non-nauseating theme, it almost doesn't look like total garbage. The default theme is a crime against humanity.
Did your machine default to tablet mode for some reason? You normally only get the full-screen start menu if your machine thinks it's a tablet. Poke around the settings - there's System->Tablet Mode, which switches a whole bunch of settings at once, and Personalization->Start Menu->Use Start Full Screen, which just flips between the old-school start menu (or a modern reskin of it, at least) and the tablet-style full-screen one. Also take a look at System->Display->Scale, if you got defaulted
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Not to mention that Windows 10 user interface* is actually really badly suited for touch screens. When they brought forward mouse and keyboard after Window 8, the touch interface actually went backwards.
*: That's "user experience" for shills and millenials ...
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Touch Mouse (Score:2)
I find touchscreens to be maddening devices.
You think touchscreens are maddening? Back when Windows 8 first came out, I was obliged to deal with it, and decided that some degree of touch capability would make it easier to navigate. Lacking a touchscreen, I opted to try a couple of mice with touch - one from Microsoft, and one from Logitech. It was simply infuriating to be halfway through filling out a form or posting something online, only to have the mouse interpret some imperceptible movement of your thumb as a "back" gesture.
What does a lineup matter? (Score:3)
Don't all of these devices run Windows?
Unless I have some sort of weird sole-source agreement from a vendor, if the various devices all run the same operating system, why does it really matter which vendor the hardware comes from? Wasn't that in large part why Windows became such a domineering player in the personal computer market in the first place?
If Microsoft or any other commodity-OS vendor had some sort of peripheral expansion system that was unique and cross-compatible across the entire line but incompatible with other manufacturers then I could possibly see having such a wide lineup being useful, but we appear to be well past the era of ubiquitous proprietary docking stations or port/peripheral expansion modules. Even when we were in that era though, it's not like a given vendor had all of their devices use that dock, usually only a fairly small subset in a given series used a particular dock, so different laptop lines would have different docks even with one vendor.
I've seen the headaches associated with repairing particular models of Lenovo like the Thinkpad Helix lineup, no way would I go with a single hardware vendor as a lock-in beyond the particular model for a particular contract. Especially when apparently the Surface series are now even worse than those Helixes are to repair.
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Don't all of these devices run Windows?
They do. What does the OS matter? Users don't care.
Did Microsoft Invest in /.? (Score:3, Informative)
It's turning into a real MS fanboi site.
Regardless of how well put together the line up is, I refuse to surrender to Windows 10 - I don't like how Microsoft is moving everything to a monthly pay model and I'm very uncomfortable with them having access to my systems.
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It's turning into a real MS fanboi site.
Because an article has been posted? Have you read the comments? It's not an MS fanboi site. It's a troll site.
Surfaces are great (Score:2)
Surfaces are great... for the first 3 months until some of the hardware randomly decides to stop working.
"Microsoft has best device lineup" (Score:2)
Thanks (Score:2)
But no thanks
Which is it? (Score:2, Informative)
Obvious paid ad aside, the writeup is self-contradictory.
"Every single one of these machines has a touchscreen..."
"By comparison, the competition is flailing around arguing about whether or not touchscreens have a place on laptops. The answer? Just let people choose."
So with the Slashdot/Microsoft laptops, do I get to choose whether I want a touchscreen? Sure sounds like I don't.
Adver (Score:5, Insightful)
This isn't anonymous. This is transparently scarcely-rewrapped ad copy. It's even loaded with buzzwords and talking points. Won't interrupt your "flow", whatever it is, touch screen or mouse? Competition is flailing around. "Compelling", etc.
Just as Microsoft did to IBM, so it has been having done to it by Apple and Google. It is still fat, relying on market dominance in Windows to play me too in all the latest hit products like smart phones.
People want touch screens for surfing at home and starting Netflix, and a keyboard and mouse for business use. Which doesn't need a touch screen for surfing and starting Netflix.
Hence the confused ad copy in the posting.
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This isn't anonymous. This is transparently scarcely-rewrapped ad copy. It's even loaded with buzzwords and talking points.
But he said "shit"! Ooooo, so edgy! So convincing! Can't possibly be corporate-speak. Microsoft would never use "blue" language in their advertising copy, surely. That would be unseemly. Therefore it must be a completely legitimate third party review that's jizzing all over my screen.
I work for what's legally a small business and unlike a lot of people's reports here, we actually have two Surfaces. Not sure which model, and it hardly matters. It's a tablet. It's fine. It functions. It can do Wind
Which company again? (Score:2)
Sitting in the audience, I saw the most coherent device strategy in the industry, from a company that's slowly built a hardware business from the ground up.
Anonymous Marketer can't be talking about viewing Microsoft's offerings then. The writer has a clear misunderstanding of the internals of computers/phone/tablets/etc. if they think Microsoft has done anything hardware related "from the ground up".
The peripherals work across every machine, and Microsoft has clearly gone to lengths with Timeline and Your Phone to make the software as seamless as you'd expect in 2018.
I'd say that's setting the bar really low in 2018. Since they've done this slowly, they've had ample time and opportunity to ensure that peripherals software work seamlessly with existing Microsoft kit, and does it work for migrating from competing kit? *sample bia
Best Device Lineup? (Score:3)
Even if you limit yourself to Windows, these are not the best devices.
We've got a number of users in our department who have purchased Microsoft devices - Surfaces, Surface Books, etc. The recent ones do look sleek, I'll give them that - but they seem to frequently run into lots of nagging problems.
The worst, not the best (Score:2)
Soldered-on electronics immersed in glue? (Score:2)
No, thank you.
Nice hardware. Shame about the OS. (Score:2)
MS does seem to be making some decent hardware. However, it's still running Windows 10, which is still shit. I hope the likes of HP, Dell, Lenovo, Acer, etc. realise they're being screwed over by MS, and start to fully support and promote alternative operating systems.
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What alternative operating systems? They can't produce a MacOS machine, although I'm sure they would if Apple allowed it. I guess there Linux. As good as it is, it's still not ready for your average user. I've been using Linux on and off since 1999, and still every time I install it on a machine there is a huge number of usability problems that just puts me off and reminds me why I don't use it as my default operating system. There is ChromeOS, which many vendors are producing machines for. I guess that's
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If they were smart...all the major hardware vendors would get together and form a common group, to pic one distro of Linux and custom comform it to be user friendly and work on their hardware in a very common way.
They could bypass the MS tax and all have this as the alternative OS, and make sales on hardw
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"What alternative OS?'... good question.. The other manufacturers will have to sort that out themselves. I deliberately didn't rush to the standard /. cry of 'Linux!', but it is the obvious answer. Google has managed to create an alternative OS... could HP or Lenovo?
Rob Enderle is that you? (Score:2)
I wondered if the industry's most notorious pro-Microsoft shill was at it again [macobserver.com], but the byline is for an "Owen Williams."
Could still be Enderle, but hey: Microsoft is a rich company. They can hire lots of shills...
Best in what way? (Score:2)
Hey, wait a minute (Score:5, Insightful)
I checked "disable ads", and yet this article still appears. /vertisement
Despite all the negativity... (Score:2)
...it's funny how you never actually see one of those around, anywhere.
I work for a large corporation, and people carry basically either all or 2 of 4 things:
- Their Apple or PC laptop.
- An Apple or Android phone.
I don't ever recall seeing even ONE of those surface laptop/table thingies anywhere, and I service most of the people's hardware, I don't even remember ONE single event when one of the coworkers came in with a surface, nor do I even see them in cafeterias, recreation rooms, workplaces, on the bus,
Looks at a Two Foot Tall Stack of The Things.. (Score:2)
YEP REAL Reliable!
That is about $50,000 wasted just for broken toys.
Back to the Dell laptops they went. There are maybe 8-10 of the things still working after two years.
Microsoft has the best lineup in the industry? (Score:2)
"Microsoft now has the best device lineup in the industry"
Too bad those devices come with the worst operating system in the industry.
For future reference.. (Score:2)
You jumped the shark with this one. Only someone vested in a company (or working for an advertising company contracted by said company) would say something like this...
Apple's dominance on the high-end laptop space looks shakier than ever, because Microsoft's story is incredibly compelling.
Real people don't talk about market "spaces", describe the totally dominant competition as "shaky", or describe some pieces of hardware as an "incredibly compelling" "story".
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That is not objective but subjective.
In terms of hardware compatibility and software availability (Managing hardware and running software is a key OS task) Then Windows is still top OS.
In terms of performance, stability... I havn't seen any problem with Windows from Windows XP SP2 and onward. My system is set to duel boot, and Windows for most of my apps actually seems to run a bit faster in Windows then with Linux.
Now all that said. In terms of what I can do with the raw OS Linux is the most useful (hence
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"MS sucks."
Posted from Safari on Mac OS X*.
* yes, Mac OS X and not macOS. Still running an old version here.
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How to answer that adequately? Oh yes:
Fuck you. Only holier-than-thou assholes are against profanity. Profanity is a tried-and-true method of stress-relief and has been an important part of human culture for as long as humans had speech.