Microsoft Announcement

[mrwoooooooo]

Ouch, on par with ultrabooks, so around £800+ for windows 8 version, £400 for RT

[xxMATTGxx]

No price actually given to the devices apart from:

Surface for Windows RT available in 32GB and 64GB — priced to competitive rates with ARM tablets.

Intel version will have higher storage capacities... also priced to compete. So, no idea.

[GommeInc]

No price actually given to the devices apart from:

The Pro will be priced in the same range as Ultrabooks, to add to your list

EDIT: And in 64GB to 128GB models.

[xxMATTGxx]

Here's a question for you all actually as I've seen on twitter that MS shouldn't compete with their partners so I ask you this:

Do you think Microsoft should compete with it's partners in terms of doing hardware like this? Or should they just leave it all to the OEM's like they have done many times before?

[lawrawrrr]

OOOO I LOVE THE LOOK OF THIS

[mrwoooooooo]

Here's a question for you all actually as I've seen this on twitter.

Do you think Microsoft should compete with it's partners in terms of doing hardware like this? Or should they just leave it all to the OEM's like they have done many times before?

Why not? Apple do it, albeit with no OEM's...

There's serious money to be made and Microsoft want more than just the license for Windows 8

[The Don]

Here's the video for it...

[GommeInc]

Here's a question for you all actually as I've seen on twitter that MS shouldn't compete with their partners so I ask you this:

Do you think Microsoft should compete with it's partners in terms of doing hardware like this? Or should they just leave it all to the OEM's like they have done many times before?

Isn't this a Samsung device they're advertising at the moment, or was the spec page on the Surface website talking about the first Surface released years ago?

[xxMATTGxx]

Why not? Apple do it, albeit with no OEM's...

There's serious money to be made and Microsoft want more than just the license for Windows 8

Apple do it because they are the only people to create it, they don't have OEMs. But Microsoft has a ton of partners and relationships could be ruined in a sense. I'm not saying it's a bad idea, it's just Paul Thurrott seems to think MS shouldn't do this.

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Isn't this a Samsung device they're advertising at the moment, or was the spec page on the Surace website talking about the first Surface released years ago?

The old "Microsoft Surface" was Samsung, no mention of Samsung today and it seems to be all Microsoft.

[mrwoooooooo]

Apple do it because they are the only people to create it, they don't have OEMs. But Microsoft has a ton of partners and relationships could be ruined in a sense. I'm not saying it's a bad idea, it's just Paul Thurrott seems to think MS shouldn't do this.

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The old "Microsoft Surface" was Samsung, no mention of Samsung today and it seems to be all Microsoft.

What's the worst that can happen? They all pull out and leave Microsoft to get ALL the money?