Tag: Microsoft News

Microsoft today announced a new lineup of Surface devices, having done so just ahead of the holiday season. That timing is notable because there’s hardly a better period of the year for trying to sell any product, least of all a luxury good, and especially in a first-world country like the U.S.

Enter Surface Laptop Go, the new addition to the Surface family that has the most potential to do well in the coming weeks, sales-wise. As you might suspect, that’s because we are not looking at a $2,000 device that this series isn’t short of.

Instead, the Surface Laptop Go is meant to offer an optimal combination of price and performance, having been designed as a capable and well-rounded mid-ranger that starts at $549.99. Which is a pretty commendable price point, especially since Microsoft is (obviously) selling this thing with Windows 10 pre-installed.

If you expect a somewhat more demanding audience, however, a second-generation Surface Pro X is also part of today’s announcement and can already be ordered directly from Microsoft, starting at $1499.99. Additionally, some half a dozen first-party Surface accessories are also being introduced today, led by the Microsoft Designer Compact Keyboard and 4K Wireless Display Adapter, going for $69.99 each.

For more up-to date technology news kindly check out our tech news category or follow us on Facebook!

Microsoft today unveiled the new Surface Hub 2S, the successor to the award-winning first-generation product that promises to be the most advanced digital whiteboard ever created.

Designed to help educators and administrators enable collaborative working in their classrooms and conference rooms, the Surface Hub 2S is similar in appearance to its predecessor but offers even more customization options to users, starting with a new series of mounts developed by Steelcase, a company that’s kind of the resident expert for display arms of any sort, with Microsoft reaching out to it specifically in order to get these arms made.

The Surface Hub 2S offers a massive, 85-inch display area that you can use to collaborate with a large number of colleagues in real time, whether in terms of actual interaction or for the simple purpose of presenting data. It is also compatible with the latest Windows 10 Pro and Enterprise app suite from Microsoft, just make sure you have the latest OS update up and running.

Microsoft is accepting pre-orders for the Surface Hub 2S 85″ as of today. Only in the United States, mind you, though Canada shouldn’t have to wait for too long to join in on the digital whiteboarding fun. First orders in the U.S. are promised to begin arriving in January.

Stateside pricing starts at $8,999.99, so make sure to buy in bulk, duh.

For more up-to date technology news kindly check out our tech news category or follow us on Facebook!

Microsoft today began rolling out Eye Contact, a teleconferencing interest feigner powered by artificial intelligence that comes in the form of an app, as all things of value do these days. This solution will modify your feed in a way that makes your boss think you’re really into this quarterly report on churn rates across secondary B2B services.

It uses machine learning models trained by Microsoft to do so, and that’s not even the only thing that makes Eye Contact worthy of the cutting-edge tech label. Unfortunately, its other stake to that title is also what makes its availability extremely limited for the time being.

Because Eye Contact has been made specifically for the SQ1, a Microsoft-made custom chipset designed for on-device machine learning applications that shipped inside the Surface Pro X which released in the U.S. last year. And only the Surface Pro X, which is why no other device can currently take advantage of this insane-looking technology, bad pun very much intended.

With that said, Microsoft expects portions of the experience will eventually be ready to be implemented into other, more affordable members of the Surface family. Though it isn’t ready to predict whether that includes some of the existing devices or only those planned to be released in the future.

For more up-to date technology news kindly check out our tech news category or follow us on Facebook!