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."

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From the summary:

[Art3x]

Huang believes the second generation will be more successful with the inclusion of Outlook

Yay, Outlook

Re:From the summary:

[Anonymous Coward]

Yay, Outlook
I think Nvidia should be thinking
ayy LookOut

Re:From the summary:

[niftydude]

Yay, Outlook

Hang on, the surface can't do e-mail properly? Just how bad was the built in mail app if they think Outlook is going to contribute massively to sales?

I guess all those commercials with people playing badly choreographed percussion games with their surface's makes more sense now: it's the only thing you can do with the damn brick.

Re:From the summary:

[symbolset]

Background: I've got an AMC Pacer - picked it up about a week ago at auction.

The weird way the stickshift works doesn't both me - it's not like I could compare it to anything.

The big killer for me though (and why I got it to replace my Pinto) is the humungous doors. Yeah, most people don't like doors that tilt the car when they open, but I think it's cool.

Fitting stuff in the back is nice too. It's ugly as hell, but I can get my stuff in it.

Outlook?

[Sorny]

Magic 8-ball says "Outlook not so good".

Just sayin'...

To use a deli analogy

[paiute]

The public did not like our original turd sandwich, but they will like our new turd sandwich. It is on rye bread.

Re:let it run win 32 apps ccompiled for ARM

[G3ckoG33k]

My friend used to be a fan, a CPU fan to be precise. His wife was a GPU fan since her chips often got a bit overheated. Sadly, my friend couldn't monitor or control her so she got burnt out and died. Eventually, after a few weeks of liquid cooling he died too. It is tough to be fan.

Re:Haswell?

[symbolset]

Microsoft's problem with ARM is that their software is proprietary. ARM systems integrators with Linux get to try out various configurations in a simulator before the silicon even gets wet. All of the various peripheral vendors have Linux drivers that work in the simulator - they make these drivers in parallel with device development because the open nature of the OS lets them test their device in private, and then submit any changes to the OS they need before they make the device public. But most especially having drivers that work in the simulator allows them to be considered in devices with a quick time to market. Proprietary software just doesn't work that way. You have to have NDA's, and meetings, full disclosure about your plans, bilateral patents agreement in place. It's a big legal tangle with lawyers and business people who play golf and have to schedule things months in advance, not engineers who don't play ever and want to see their creations exist NOW. It takes years and years.

Microsoft's problem with Surface is that we don't do things like they do things any more. They still live in the bad old days when progress was slow. They have to buy their development platforms at retail, and by the time they've got their software fit to publish on it that's legacy hardware and we've moved on. They can't keep up because they aren't even in the game. That's without considering that they have to put in some special hardware to make sure you can't make the device useful with good software one they blow it.