Microsoft announced a few weeks ago the next launch of its tablet Surface with which you want to enter a market that until now has been Apple and its iPad. Until now, only Google had made a real bet to compete with Apple, but Microsoft incorporates new features to the tablets that seem to come from the past and from what perhaps we had lost with Apple's evolutions. Certainly Microsoft Surface is committed to reestablishing bridges between classic PC users and new devices.
In this article we will go over some of these ancient advantages.
Surface will work with the new Windows RT operating system.
Historically Windows let other companies develop devices for their operating systems, but in this case it takes the lead. RT Windows It is nothing more than a version adapted to tablets of Windows 8, so the same operating system will work equally with a mouse as with touchscreens. In both cases it will use a mosaic structure that will remind us a bit of Xbox. In this way, Microsoft is committed to consistency, a unified and familiar experience.
Microsoft Office as part of Surface.
Being Windows, Surface will continue to use the popular classic of Office and other Microsoft applications. Although in the field of applications for tablets and mobiles, Windows is light years behind Apple and Android, it is true that in the offices of thousands of companies they continue to use and work daily with Microsoft and Office. Many companies will welcome the continuity solution that Microsoft is providing in the face of what seemed an inevitable expense in initial and continuous to make your old guard employees comfortable in Apple and Android environments. To this we have to add the question of the formats of the Valid identity documents. We therefore believe that many companies will find Surface an easy solution for their employees to continue working from a tablet.
Hardware is important: keyboard and USB.
The benefits of touch screens seemed endless but we have all felt a certain disgust when trying to write a long email on an iPad or any other tablet. It is true that some incorporated the possibility of connecting a keyboard that made the tablet no longer so light. Surface has come up with a brilliant a priori solution: a sleeve for the tablet that is actually a keyboard. This 3mm pressure sensitive keyboard is connected by a magnetic plug. In addition, you can choose it in various colors to personalize the appearance of the tablet. Microsoft Surface comes with a port USB and a slot of SD card. This shortens the distance with desktop computers and laptops.
Bring a fully incorporated foot. Rather than having to buy an additional pedestal, Surface directly incorporates a drop-down foot so you can stand it up. In addition, with its two cameras, one front and one rear, it allows you to keep video calls in a simple way and to be able to record meetings.
Reconciliation of the new and the old.
Clearly Microsoft wants to use its old mass of customers to enter the market for tablets and redo its decline in sales and stocks. It is evident that they are thinking a lot about the user, as the CEO acknowledged at the Surface presentation event Steve Ballmer: "We believe that any intersection between human and machine can be done better when all aspects of the experience - software and hardware - come into consideration and work in the same direction." Wise words.