Microsoft's Surface Hub Is a 'Hit', Demand Outstrips Supply (petri.com)

Microsoft said on Thursday that it has sold over 500 units of the Surface Hubs, a number that apparently "exceeded" the company's initial forecasts. In a statement to Microsoft-centric blog Petri, the company said: "Demand for Surface Hubs is very strong and exceeded initial forecasts. To date, we've shipped to over 500 customers worldwide and that number continues to grow. We are ramping up production to meet this strong demand via our partner reseller channel as soon as possible. Customers are encouraged to speak with their sales representative if interested in ordering Surface Hubs." For a refresh, the Surface Hub is a giant all-in-one Windows 10 computer which retails at a starting price point of $8,999 for the 55-inch model, and goes all the way up to $21,999 for the 84-inch model.

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500 customers, not units

[NotInHere]

From TFA:

To date, we’ve shipped to over 500 customers worldwide and that number continues to grow

So there were 500 customers, not 500 units they sold.

Re:The last time it was a coffee table

[bloodhawk]

500 customers not units as usual the fucking Slashdot summary is shit. These are enterprise devices, common target environment is video conferencing, would not surprise me if 500 customers equates to many thousands of units.

We're a customer with 1 unit

[Anonymous Coward]

And my goodness it's a pain to set up. We've been working on it for a few weeks now to replace a current regular PC connected to a regular 52'' HD screen for Lync video-conferencing, and it's still not installed for general use because of things like domain-joined-but-not-really-behaving-domain-joined, problems authenticating to proxy servers due to aforementioned issue, and other strangeness. I'm a network/firewall engineer, but the server guys working on the unit are asking for my help with wireshark and packet captures from the network side, because they can't work out what the heck the thing is doing, and it's locked down like crazy so you can't install or even inspect what you can if it was a normal Windows PC. It's not a regular computing device. I would liken it more to a Windows Phone with a giant screen, given what you're allowed to do on it.

I wouldn't have recommended purchasing it partly because I don't trust the cloud (I assume it's purchased and not a demo unit), and this thing appears to be pretty cloud integrated, but highers ups see ooh shiny.