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Microsoft's Surface Roadmap Reportedly Includes Ambient Computing and a Modular All-in-One PC (venturebeat.com)
Journalist Brad Sams is releasing a book chronicling the company's Surface brand: Beneath a Surface. VentureBeat writes: While you'll want to read all 26 chapters to get the juicy details, the last one includes Microsoft's hardware roadmap for 2019, and even a part of 2020 -- spanning various Surface products and even a little Xbox. Here's a quick rundown of Microsoft's current Surface lineup plans:
Spring 2019: A new type of Surface-branded ambient computing device designed to address "some of the common frustrations of using a smartphone," but that isn't itself a smartphone.
Q4 2019: Surface Pro refresh with USB-C (finally), smaller bezels, rounded corners, and new color options.
Q4 2019: AMD-based Surface Laptop -- Microsoft is exploring using the Picasso architecture.
Late 2019: Microsoft's foldable tablet Andromeda could be larger than earlier small form factor prototypes for a pocketable device with dual screens and LTE connectivity.
Q1 2020: Surface Book update that might include new hinge designs (high-end performance parts may delay availability).
2020: A Surface monitor, and the modular design debuted for Surface Hub 2 could make its way to Surface Studio. The idea is to bring simple upgrades to all-in-one PCs, rather than having to replace the whole computer. GeekWire adds: A pair of new lower-cost devices Xbox One S devices could come next year. Sams reports that one of the models may be all digital, without a disc drive.
Spring 2019: A new type of Surface-branded ambient computing device designed to address "some of the common frustrations of using a smartphone," but that isn't itself a smartphone.
Q4 2019: Surface Pro refresh with USB-C (finally), smaller bezels, rounded corners, and new color options.
Q4 2019: AMD-based Surface Laptop -- Microsoft is exploring using the Picasso architecture.
Late 2019: Microsoft's foldable tablet Andromeda could be larger than earlier small form factor prototypes for a pocketable device with dual screens and LTE connectivity.
Q1 2020: Surface Book update that might include new hinge designs (high-end performance parts may delay availability).
2020: A Surface monitor, and the modular design debuted for Surface Hub 2 could make its way to Surface Studio. The idea is to bring simple upgrades to all-in-one PCs, rather than having to replace the whole computer. GeekWire adds: A pair of new lower-cost devices Xbox One S devices could come next year. Sams reports that one of the models may be all digital, without a disc drive.
aside from being another new buzzword to learn, that is
Notice something strange about evolution of logos of Microsoft and Windows? You know it's not so much a window especially if you think of it as plural, but a time a cross. You can't ignore other strange dots in the dark room - apple fruitcake. Remember it used to be in rainbow colors. Linux is horny creature. It's nothing to worry about as it's just branding issues by mad men from MAD is ON avenue. In this case bill gates identity is as fake as obongos issued by brokeback mountainview of havaiian region of pearl harbor. Now you have to ask yourself - is it gates of heaven of gates of hell.
This isn't it.
How about a smartphone that can turn into a tablet or a desktop or a ruku or a gaming console. Then the $1k smartphone woukd actually make some sense.
Isn't that just a regular PC with a separate monitor?
for spouting the
"modular all-in-one"
speak.
FCOL
captcha : frigid
The power cable is the biggest disappointment with the Surface. I thought they want to use it as some kind of docking adapter but leaving out a USB 3 charging port option is just wrong.
Kriston
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2018/11/29/key-takeaways-michael-cohens-new-plea-deal/
1. There are conspicuous mentions of Trump and his family
2. Putin’s spokesman appears to have helped cover this up
3. This ties the Trump family’s efforts to the Russian government
4) The deal apparently died the day The Post broke a story about Russian hacking.
First off... "modular all-in-one pc?" Da fsck does that mean? Doesn't modular imply many parts that can be added/removed, while all-in-one means the opposite?
OK, reading further... "A Surface monitor... blah blah... The idea is to bring simple upgrades to all-in-one PCs, rather than having to replace the whole computer."
What... I don't even... huh? Reinvent the wheel much? The whole *point* of the desktop PC since the dawn of the freakin' pc age is that you can open it up and upgrade bits and pieces at will - a hard-drive here, some memory, maybe a new video card etc. The only fly in the ointment is, well, microsoft and their silly "you change x components so we invalidated your license now" / "let's nail everything down with trusted computer blah (or whatever they've rebranded it this week)" type shenanigans.
I like my OS stable, not polished.
https://www.washingtonpost.com...
1. There are conspicuous mentions of Trump and his family.
2. Putin’s spokesman appears to have helped cover this up.
3. This ties the Trump family’s efforts to the Russian government.
4) The deal apparently died the day The Post broke a story about Russian hacking.
https://www.huffingtonpost.com...
If the PC is all-in-one, then why is it modular?