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This article was published October 6, 2015 at 22:53.
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There was a lot of waiting for the launch event of the new family of devices based on the new OS version “made in Redmond.” And, objectively, the expectations were not disappointed. At least in quantitative terms, considering that the new products put on display by Microsoft in New York have been six: computers hybrid Book Surface and Surface Pro 4, wearable bracelet Band 2, the flagship Lumia 950 smartphone and 950 XL (with screens from 5.2 to 5.7 inches and prices set at 699 and 599 euro respectively) and low cost Lumia 550. The icing on the cake, which will be discussed later, the experiments of “mixed reality” made possible Computer holographic HoloLens.
As for the devices listed above will contribute to the cause of Windows – the giant reminiscent of a North American installed base has reached 110 million digital devices around the world – it is obviously not given to know . It warns, however, the feeling, ads in hand, the Ecosystem project and universal software have liked and promoted by CEO Satya Nadella is taking shape. Also because, to complement the menu of solutions in key Windows, came the confirmation of the availability of development kits for HoloLens (deliveries will start from the first quarter of 2016 and to have it serve 3 thousand dollars), and the new interface for the Xbox One, completely redesigned to integrate the functionality Windows 10 (which is pendant can play with 100 titles of Xbox 360 on Xbox One free)
Computer professional to break the hegemony of Apple
To summarize in a few words the meaning of the ads within the computing you could say that Microsoft has launched a decided, as expected , gauntlet to Apple. Several experts from overseas have rightly noted that the Surface Pro 4 pc professional tablet of fourth generation, is the response to the new iPad of Apple Pro, and as the Surface Book screen from 13.5 inches (released in surprise from the cylinder by Panos Panay, corporate vice president of Microsoft Surface Computing) is a specific competitor of the MacBook Pro (or MacBook Air) of the latest generation.
For both, Microsoft has played a joker additional aroused consents to the audience at the event in New York, and that is a digital pen that maximum precision and ease of interaction with technology that ran them (in combination with Office applications, with OneNote, and also with the virtual assistant Cortana) with the same level of pressure exerted by the hand to write on paper. The icing on the cake? A kind of “rubber” integrated erase mistakes.
Microsoft, the Surface extra large, apparently bet a lot and it is understandable, since this is his first notebook: the defined two times faster than the laptop to the Apple’s business and labeled as “the ultimate laptop”. A product that combines power and performance (Intel Core processors and Nvidia GPU) in flexibility of use and ergonomics (it is a convertible PC in effect) to apply to the role of ideal machine for different types of users, from architects to video maker . Screen and keyboard are joined by a hinge mechanism can easily be separated; unlike the Surface tablet keyboard is an integral part of the basic equipment. The price – $ 1,499, with availability for the US market fixed from October 26 – you can quibble long. Too high? Maybe. But Microsoft wanted to make it big, and maybe he was right to do it.
For the Surface Pro 4, as it was expected, the Redmond has spared no efforts, working on the design for the thickness can overthrow , the processing power (Intel Core CPUs to be 30% faster than the Surface Pro 3 and 50% faster than the MacBook Air) and usability in orbit work, increased by virtue of a display of 12.5 inch high resolution (267 PPI, 60% more than the previous generation) and protected by a Gorilla Glass coating often just 0.4 mm. Let the rich dowry of interfaces (including USB 3.0 ports and 4K), the fingerprint reader and biometric authentication functions through the application Hello Windows 10 and here served a computer that is likely to meet the favor of even the most demanding mobile users . In Italy we will see it on the shelves of Mediaworld, Euronics, Expert Trony Unieuro and from 19 November, with entry costs of EUR 1,029 for the configuration with Core M and 128 GB of storage space.
Wearable and virtual reality: the Microsoft challenge Google
For lovers of special effects and entertainment of the fourth dimension, the attraction staged in New York is named Project X-Ray , a new application designed for viewers Hololens that transforms a room in the house in the set of a video game of shooting. Experience “mixed reality”, just as they defined by Microsoft. In fact a combination of virtual reality and the physical world, through a stick to hold that HoloLens becomes optically from a digital glove. Or better yet, the words of Terry Myerson, executive vice president of Windows and Devices, a system in which “the holograms act like real objects and intelligent that can interact with each other and with the environment.”
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