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Microsoft Finally Ships $8,999 Surface Hub (eweek.com)
An anonymous reader quotes a report from eWeek: Surface Hub, originally slated to ship last September and later missing its January 2016 release deadline, is finally being delivered to Microsoft's business customers, announced Brian Hall, general manager of Microsoft Devices Marketing, on Friday. The touch-enabled Windows 10-powered device, available in a 55-inch and a massive 84-inch model, features built-in cameras, a microphone array, Bluetooth, WiFi, motion sensors and near-field communications (NFC). It runs Skype for Business, Office and OneNote, providing an integrated collaboration experience, and at least with the 84-inch model, an expansive canvas for interactive presentations and virtual meetings. With the Surface Hub, Microsoft is making an aggressive push into the conferencing and collaboration market currently dominated by Cisco, Citrix and Polycom. "I couldn't be more proud to announce this milestone for our team, customers, and partners. We can't wait to see what people, teams and businesses will do with Surface Hub," said Hall in a March 25 announcement.
"Hey Bob. The new giant iPad has arrived."
"Hey everyone. Come see the new giant iPad."
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Enough for you to connect/plugin the charger, barely.
I don't totally agree. Let's keep to the facts and look at the numbers. You can see how many articles a user has submitted and how often their submissions are accepted. Here goes, for the past week or so:
SomeoneFromBelgium (2/2 -- 100%)
Wave723 (2/2 -- 100%)
A_Mang (1/1 -- 100%)
FourG (1/1 -- 100%)
prisoninmate (33/49 -- 67.35%)
HughPickens.com (421/626 -- 67.25%)
skywire (2/3 -- 66.67%)
JasonKoebler (70/106 -- 66.04%)
mrspoonsi (99/183 -- 54.10%)
v3rgEz (70/131 -- 53.44%)
jones_supa (383/735 -- 52.11%)
dcblogs (149/286 -- 52.10%)
aarondubrow (33/64 -- 51.56%)
BVBigelow (2/4 -- 50.00%)
Mickeycaskill (33/70 -- 47.14%)
tlhIngan (32/68 -- 47.06%)
itwbennett (897/2074 -- 43.25%)
insitus (3/7 -- 42.86%)
msm1267 (99/234 -- 42.31%)
Freshly Exhumed (68/162 -- 41.98%)
theodp (1504/3633 -- 41.40%)
angry tapir (476/1152 -- 41.32%)
mspohr (22/55 -- 40.00%)
pacopico (30/78 -- 38.46%)
----- MEAN OF LISTED SUBMITTERS ----- (6582/17232 -- 38.20%)
schwit1 (443/1199 -- 36.95%)
eggboard (41/113 -- 36.28%)
MojoKid (684/1902 -- 35.96%)
Bruce66423 (41/131 -- 31.30%)
MikeChino (49/163 -- 30.06%)
Penguinisto (8/32 -- 25.00%)
coondoggie (670/2837 -- 23.62%)
mdsolar (156/693 -- 22.51%)
mmoorebz (6/28 -- 21.43%)
tripleevenfall (13/63 -- 20.63%)
Thelasko (9/52 -- 17.31%)
anderzole (4/24 -- 16.67%)
Lauren Weinstein (24/145 -- 16.55%)
twickline (2/124 -- 1.61%)
It's interesting because there's a huge variability in how often people have their articles posted. I'd say there's several users who flood the submission queue, but some of the users doing so aren't the ones you guys suspect of it. Also of interest is that there aren't any articles from StartsWithABang; it seems like the editors won't consider posting stories that link to Forbes. As for twickline, he seemed to submit a bunch of articles back in 2010 about new releases of open source software, but they were tagged as spam and the links were removed.