Friday, October 19, 2012

forget the alamo


businessweek

MicroSoft launches its sleek new Surface tablet this week and Steve Balmer has a lot riding on it. To stay relevant in an exploding mobile market that did not embrace the Windows Phone, a software company builds hardware. 


And launches it with a splash of dancing people
 and fountains and stuff.

Check out the dancing school girls. Yeah, baby.


The reviews are snazzy, it’s apparently well made and it has a nifty magnetic keyboard cover. But I don’t think this catches on in any color, not really. I’ll tell you why.

abcnews

The iPAD this competes against is a device built on top of earlier devices over an entire ecosystem of existing applications.

ubergizmo.com

With the Surface, MicroSoft is running a brand new OS called RT, a slimmed down version of brand new Windows 8. Yeah, baby. 


remember the Zune.

gadgetscrunch.com

2 comments:

  1. I'm interested in the keyboard cover. But that's about it.

    Hah. The Zune.

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  2. Hah. And I couldn't help thinking that the young man lead in the grey sweater is this year's Justin Long.

    :-)
    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Justin_Long

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