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First Look: Microsoft Surface Tablet Touch Cover


како рече један коментатор

    Videćemo. Ovo je sprava za ljude koji još uvek ne mogu da se odluče za šta im treba tablet, ne žele da se odreknu laptopa a opet bi da stupe u budućnost. Moglo bi lako da se desi da propadne jer je prekomplikovano za tablet a preslabo za laptop. Plus niska rezolucija. Plus, mislim, windows....

ја се радујем изуму, за који се надам да ће подстаћи и остале да мењају парадигме
...ми'сим...микрософ' је знано џубре, али овај комад пластике им је одличан (наравно мислим на Touch Cover)

posle onog macairretina shita, teško da išta bolje trenutnommože da se nađe. jako, lagano a još i lepo. jedino što je skup ko svetog petra kajgana.

https://twitter.com/danielkhanh/status/215346700561297408/photo/1

Ne direktno vezano ali ne i nevezano:

Tech manufacturing: A disaster waiting to happen 

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  Home / Blogs / CIO Insights   Follow this blog:  RSS Email Alert CIO Insights    20Comments          Tech manufacturing: A disaster waiting to happen   20Comments            By Peter Cochrane June 18, 2012, 6:21 AM PDT Takeaway: The manufacture of technology, along with its essential raw materials, is now concentrated in a single region. This lack of resilience leaves the industry dangerously vulnerable to disruption. Written in at Abu Dhabi airport and despatched to TechRepublic via a free 23Mbps free wi-fi service.
Historically, mature markets settle down with three big competing suppliers and a handful of niche players. This rule of three has tended to dominate regions such as North America, Europe and south-east Asia. But since globalisation took hold, geographic diversity has become distorted along with the resilience of supply.
Examples of a growing supply-chain brittleness include manufacturers temporarily denuded of LCD screens, memory chips and batteries by fires, a tsunami, and industrial problems. With only a few plants located in south-east Asia, we are running the gauntlet of man-made and natural disasters.
Underpinning this limited number of suppliers are the producers of vital rare earths and other basic components. So we now have a concatenation of limited sourcing and manufacture in the supply chain concentrated in just one region. These set of circumstances amount to a major disaster just waiting to happen.
The 10 dominant contract manufacturers So what of our electronics and computing power? Is the situation any better for the PCs, laptops, tablets and smartphones? Today, all these devices are produced by just 10 dominant contract manufacturers. This small group is spearheaded by Foxconn of Taiwan, which manufactures for Apple, Dell, HP, Acer, Sony, Nokia, Intel, Cisco, Nintendo and Amazon among others.
This industrial nesting happened before with domestic goods, automobiles, aircraft and boats - from the production of individual components through to the complete product.
Domestic ovens are a prime example of a product differentiated at the last minute by the installation of a custom control panel, doors and decals. But the carcass and heating elements are the same for many of the big names in the market – only the external finish and prices vary.
One big difference with this sector is that production facilities remain reasonably distributed across continents with Europe, North America and south-east Asia all well supported.
However, they all share the same Achilles heel – their electronic components come from just one region – south-east Asia. And the really worrying bit? Many of the 10 big players in the IT field are not making good profits, and economic pressure could result in the 10 becoming seven.
Next phase of industry Now for the good news. The next phase of industry, production and supply will be nano- and bio-based and looks as though it will be far more distributed and locally based. Provided we can make the transition from our existing circumstances to the new ones, then we should see a far more stable and resilient planet.
Before this change can happen we need to see the reform of one important discipline – and that is economics.
So far we don't have a single economic theory that has stood the test of time or resisted the changes in the market created by technological and societal change. In short, economic theory and practice isn't working.
Making judgement calls using simplistic models of supply, demand, price and profit is far too crude a starting point. We need to include resilience, survivability, sustainability, people and ecological impact in the equation.
 

Heh. Tim Kuk je održao duhu Stiva Džobsa lekciju iz neprincipijelnosti. Naime, kada je Majkrosoft najavio Srfis, Tim Kuk je izjavio kako je to kao da biste pokušali da ukrstite toster i frižider, ha ha ha, a i mali im je kurac. Kad najednom, ispade da Epl ima sličan patent pod pasom. Bogata fegetacija, što bi rekao MC Jebašfini.

Apple patent filing looks a lot like Microsoft Surface 

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Great minds think alike?
A patent application submitted by Apple last year — and made public just this morning — describes a flexible, magnetically attached cover for a tablet device. It's similar to Apple's existing smart cover for the iPad, except that this cover can also function as an input and display device. And one of the concepts described by Apple in the patent filing is an idea for using the cover as a keyboard.
The end result looks very similar to the signature feature of Microsoft's Surface tablet computer.
Apple CEO Tim Cook has insisted that combining a tablet and a notebook would be like converging a toaster and a refrigerator, but the Apple patent application offers a different perspective. The addition of the keyboard to the cover adds "no significant weight or bulk to the tablet device and makes this configuration a true laptop alternative," it says.
Apple applied for the patent on Aug. 11, 2011, but it wasn't made public by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office until today. Microsoft announced the Surface in June of this year, and the device is slated for release in October. Apple hasn't yet been granted a patent for the technology.
The two approaches aren't exactly alike. For example, Apple envisions the cover being made of fabric and including a thin "flap screen" display above the keyboard. But the general concepts are similar. Here's a an excerpt from the Apple patent filing, with numbers referring to the diagram above.

Having a separate keyboard attached to tablet device 402 while tablet device 402 is in a convenient viewing angle has a number of advantages. First, this configuration gives the user an experience much closer to the one enjoyed by laptop users. Second, by allowing the user to easily view the screen and by providing a convenient surface to type on, tasks such as word processing and email become much more efficient. Third, the experience is even better in some ways than the laptop experience as most laptops do not include rear facing touch controls for video or document manipulation. Finally, the addition of flap portion 420 adds no significant weight or bulk to the tablet device and makes this configuration a true laptop alternative. Even more functionality can be added to flap portion 420 by configuring it with flap screen 504, positioned either above (as shown in FIG. 5) or below keyboard 502. When configured above keyboard 502 flap screen 504 could allow for customized virtual keys to be added specific to each application, or could be used as a way to display additional application data. Flap screen 504 could also be configured with application toolbars, or even an active application list for easily switching between active applications. When flap screen 504 is configured below keyboard 502 it could act as a replacement for a touch pad, bringing the experience even closer to a conventional laptop configuration. With this configuration a cursor can even be implemented in applications where useful.

The keyboard option is just one of the approaches described in the Apple patent application. It's clear that Apple has been envisioning lots of different uses for the iPad cover. Here's a look at some of the other diagrams, including options for using the cover as an ambient solar power collector or an auxiliary display with — get this — a stylus as one possible input.
Be sure to check out the second reminder message in the diagram at the very bottom.
 

па јес' логично

Naravno, čim je Majkrosoft najavio Srfis, bilo je jasno da će njihovi OEM partneri, firme koje proizvode hardver, biti prilično narogušeni. Acer su izgleda prvi koji najavljuju lavinu besa. 

Acer Takes Issue with Microsoft's Surface Tablets 

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Acer seems to be taking issue with Microsoft's upcoming Surface tablets, which the latter built in-house. Ever since Microsoft announced that it would build its Surface tablets in-house, analysts and pundits have debated whether the move would irritate the company's longtime hardware partners.
Even Microsoft seemed to view that irritation as a sure thing. "Our Surface devices will compete with products made by our OEM partners, which may affect their commitment to the platform," the company wrote in its annual Form 10-K filing with the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC).
But actual OEM comments on Surface were few and far between—until now. "On one hand Microsoft is our partner, but on the other, Microsoft's move makes them compete not only with us but all PC makers," Acer spokesperson Henry Wang told Bloomberg Aug. 7. "We think that Microsoft's launch of its own-brand products is negative for the whole PC industry."
The question remains whether other hardware partners, including Hewlett-Packard and Dell, also jump on a we-hate-Surface train. Dell and HP have already signaled intentions to produce a range of devices running Windows 8, and it seems inconceivable that other OEMs would miss out on a platform refresh that, even if it doesn't prove a hit on the scale of Windows XP or Windows 7, will almost certainly sell millions of units.
While Windows 8 seems to have alienated at least one hardware manufacturers, third-party developers appear quite a bit more interested in the platform. A recent survey by Appcelerator and IDC found 33.3 percent of surveyed developers reporting an interest in building for Windows 8 tablets, which will hit the market later this year; that came despite declining zeal for developing for Windows Phone.
Microsoft will let those developers price Windows Store apps at anywhere from $1.49 to $999.99. The Windows Store will play an integral role in Windows 8. That bottom price is a slight uptick from the $0.99 that Apple's App Store transformed into a popular baseline for third-party wares.
The built-in Windows Store, along with an integrated SkyDrive and other features, help make Windows 8 the most cloud-centric of Microsoft's Windows operating systems. Windows 8 on tablets will face off against Apple's iPad and various touch-screens running Google Android, both of which also rely heavily on cloud services and apps for functionality.

Srfis još nije n izašao (i neće dva meseca) a vredne 'čelice u Majrkosoftu već rade na sledećoj iteraciji tableta. Ili se bar tako čini. Moglo bi da se desi da Surface 2 koristi alternativne izvore energije. 

http://m.techradar.com/news/mobile-computing/tablets/microsoft-is-already-working-on-surface-2-tablets-1091358

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Microsoft is already working on Surface 2 tablets 7th Aug 2012 | 10:35
  A dozen job adverts for "the next generation" posted online
  The Surface tablets that Microsoft will start selling on 26 October at Microsoft Stores (and in temporary 'holiday stores' in twelve US cities including New York) are only the first of a planned family of Windows devices and Surface 2.0 is already under development.
Although Microsoft corporate communications chief Frank Shaw said recently that calling Surface "our new family of PCs built to be the ultimate stage for Windows" was no more than "literary licence" and that there was nothing more than the two tablets already announced, the Surface team is "currently building the next generation" of "devices that fully express the Windows vision" - according to more than a dozen job adverts posted on the Microsoft Careers site between June and August.
The ads are all dated after the name of the original table-size Surface changed to PixelSense, so they're not left over from that and all the ads begin like this:
"The Surface Team focuses on lighting up Microsoft experiences with touch first computing. A fundamental part of our strategy is having desirable and powerful devices that enable the experiences people want, and elicit their excitement. Creating these devices involves a close partnership between hardware and software engineers, designers, and manufacturing. We are currently building the next generation and Surface needs you!"
New Surface? Does the "next generation" of Surface devices mean a new Surface tablet? One job advert for a mechanical engineer does reveal that Microsoft is looking for "understanding of touch display architecture and experience in mechanical integration of large touch displays into electronics products" so the Surface team may also be working on the successor to the 80" Perceptive Pixel wall screen. Microsoft has said it wants to make these cheaper.
But the Surface team is definitely working on mobile computing devices, because one senior electrical engineer will work on "the electrical design and qualification of AC-DC power supplies and adapters" and you only need those for battery-powered devices.
Surface 2 features It would be more surprising if Microsoft wasn't working on the next generation of Surface; Apple is certainly working on the new iPad and Android tablets will continue to evolve. But the scope of the jobs Microsoft is recruiting for shows that this isn't just keeping Surface up to date with future processor improvements. It's building up a full product design and development team to keep innovating (and keeping PC OEMs on their toes with some healthy competition).
Positions range from mechanical engineers to component specialists and materials experts to driver developers and audio engineers (plus manufacturing and packaging designers), in addition to the substantial team of industrial designers and engineers already on the Surface team.
Every job description mentions "fast-paced product development cycles" so we expect Microsoft to be keeping up with the launch schedules of other PC and tablet makers.
Surface 2 innovations But the plans for the next generation of Surface are as ambitious as the innovations of the Touch Cover. Microsoft is looking for a materials engineer to work with "new materials including metals, ceramics, plastics and thin films" as well as "finishing processes such as paint, plating and PVD". (Physical Vapour Deposition coats surfaces with a micron-thick layer that won't wear off; it's used to make Formula One engines run cooler, as well as giving luxury watches their hardwearing finish and with the right coating it can make phones waterproof.)

Intriguingly, one senior engineer will be looking at designs including "alternative power sources". Could Microsoft be considering fuel cells or new battery chemistry to give the successor to Surface Plus the ARM-like battery life Intel has always struggled to deliver?
Another mechanical engineer will be working on both "passive and active cooling thermal designs that best balance performance, cost, manufacturability, acoustics and reliability".

In retrospect, giving the new tablets the Surface name was a very clever move. Not only is it far too good a name to waste on expensive commercial offerings like table-size multi-person devices, but it must have helped keep the tablet project secret.
If the intense security slipped and someone saw a reference to 'the Surface team' or touch technology being used for Surface or Surface hardware mentioned in the same breath as Xbox and Zune (as it was in a number of job adverts earlier this year), there wasn't an intriguing codename to get excited about - just an existing product that many people had written off as clever but unlikely to go mainstream. If necessary, Surface could hide in plain sight.
We expect Microsoft to keep the details of what's in the second-generation Surface just as secret, but we anticipate seeing the result of those "fast-paced product development cycles" sooner rather than later. There's been a new iPad every year; it wouldn't be surprising to see a new Surface, with a Windows RT update, just as often. 

Što se mene tiče, sačekaću da vidim, što bi rekli u mom selu. Najpre me zanima cena tog sokoćala - vidim neke priče da bi mogao da košta oko 200 dolara - a potom me zanima kolika će biti funkcionalnost u odnosu na prave laptopove/netbukove sa jedne i Asusove transformer tablete sa druge strane. Ja imam Transformer 1 sa tastaturom, koju sam uzeo upravo da bih mogao da simuliram laptop s njom, ali android kao platforma još nije zreo za tako nešto. Ne znam kakva je stvar sa novijim tabletima iz te serije, ali trenutno mi se čini da je netbuk možda ipak bolja varijanta za korisnike kojima je potreban ultraportabilan neštokaolaptop, a po povoljnoj ceni.

Sigurno ima i ozbiljnijih autleta koji su napisali i objavili prikaz Srfisa, ali, njih ću da okačim kad mi nalete. Za sada, evo šta misli Ričard Ledbetr. tl;dr: ne misli mnogo lepog. Čojs kvout:

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The sobering reality is that Surface is a disappointment on almost every level. Game performance is wildly off-pace compared to the competition, the Windows desktop has barely any actual functionality aside from accessing Office, and, in terms of Word at least, the product should never have shipped in this state. It's described as a pre-release version that will be updated for free once it is ready, but for such an important element of the package to feature such a grim user experience at launch is unforgivable.
So is the Surface RT a nuclear disaster of a product with no redeeming features whatsoever? Not quite - clearly, there is some potential here. The Metro UI works really nicely, offering up a classy, visually rich alternative to iOS and Android with the context-sensitive icons and the "swipe from the sides" access for additional functions just two little elements that work really well. But a £400 tablet cannot be recommended on the basis of a collection of neat features, a nice UI and a decent browser. We wanted Surface to be the product that would render our laptop obsolete, while offering competitive gaming performance to the iPad. On both counts, Surface fails badly: Windows is hobbled, Office doesn't entirely work properly in its current form, and it seems as if games are crying out for more horsepower.

Quote from: Meho Krljic on 06-08-2012, 12:20:33
Heh. Tim Kuk je održao duhu Stiva Džobsa lekciju iz neprincipijelnosti. Naime, kada je Majkrosoft najavio Srfis, Tim Kuk je izjavio kako je to kao da biste pokušali da ukrstite toster i frižider, ha ha ha, a i mali im je kurac. Kad najednom, ispade da Epl ima sličan patent pod pasom. Bogata fegetacija, što bi rekao MC Jebašfini.

Apple patent filing looks a lot like Microsoft Surface 

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Great minds think alike?
A patent application submitted by Apple last year — and made public just this morning — describes a flexible, magnetically attached cover for a tablet device. It's similar to Apple's existing smart cover for the iPad, except that this cover can also function as an input and display device. And one of the concepts described by Apple in the patent filing is an idea for using the cover as a keyboard.
The end result looks very similar to the signature feature of Microsoft's Surface tablet computer.
Apple CEO Tim Cook has insisted that combining a tablet and a notebook would be like converging a toaster and a refrigerator, but the Apple patent application offers a different perspective. The addition of the keyboard to the cover adds "no significant weight or bulk to the tablet device and makes this configuration a true laptop alternative," it says.
Apple applied for the patent on Aug. 11, 2011, but it wasn't made public by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office until today. Microsoft announced the Surface in June of this year, and the device is slated for release in October. Apple hasn't yet been granted a patent for the technology.
The two approaches aren't exactly alike. For example, Apple envisions the cover being made of fabric and including a thin "flap screen" display above the keyboard. But the general concepts are similar. Here's a an excerpt from the Apple patent filing, with numbers referring to the diagram above.

Having a separate keyboard attached to tablet device 402 while tablet device 402 is in a convenient viewing angle has a number of advantages. First, this configuration gives the user an experience much closer to the one enjoyed by laptop users. Second, by allowing the user to easily view the screen and by providing a convenient surface to type on, tasks such as word processing and email become much more efficient. Third, the experience is even better in some ways than the laptop experience as most laptops do not include rear facing touch controls for video or document manipulation. Finally, the addition of flap portion 420 adds no significant weight or bulk to the tablet device and makes this configuration a true laptop alternative. Even more functionality can be added to flap portion 420 by configuring it with flap screen 504, positioned either above (as shown in FIG. 5) or below keyboard 502. When configured above keyboard 502 flap screen 504 could allow for customized virtual keys to be added specific to each application, or could be used as a way to display additional application data. Flap screen 504 could also be configured with application toolbars, or even an active application list for easily switching between active applications. When flap screen 504 is configured below keyboard 502 it could act as a replacement for a touch pad, bringing the experience even closer to a conventional laptop configuration. With this configuration a cursor can even be implemented in applications where useful.

The keyboard option is just one of the approaches described in the Apple patent application. It's clear that Apple has been envisioning lots of different uses for the iPad cover. Here's a look at some of the other diagrams, including options for using the cover as an ambient solar power collector or an auxiliary display with — get this — a stylus as one possible input.
Be sure to check out the second reminder message in the diagram at the very bottom.
 

Very exciting tablet cover.. Thanks for sharing detailed information along with pics.. I would love to have the cover very soon.

Quote from: SethHolland on 27-01-2014, 13:26:57

Quote from: Meho Krljic on 06-08-2012, 12:20:33
Heh. Tim Kuk je održao duhu Stiva Džobsa lekciju iz neprincipijelnosti. Naime, kada je Majkrosoft najavio Srfis, Tim Kuk je izjavio kako je to kao da biste pokušali da ukrstite toster i frižider, ha ha ha, a i mali im je kurac. Kad najednom, ispade da Epl ima sličan patent pod pasom. Bogata fegetacija, što bi rekao MC Jebašfini.

Apple patent filing looks a lot like Microsoft Surface 

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Great minds think alike?
A patent application submitted by Apple last year — and made public just this morning — describes a flexible, magnetically attached cover for a tablet device. It's similar to Apple's existing smart cover for the iPad, except that this cover can also function as an input and display device. And one of the concepts described by Apple in the patent filing is an idea for using the cover as a keyboard.
The end result looks very similar to the signature feature of Microsoft's Surface tablet computer.
Apple CEO Tim Cook has insisted that combining a tablet and a notebook would be like converging a toaster and a refrigerator, but the Apple patent application offers a different perspective. The addition of the keyboard to the cover adds "no significant weight or bulk to the tablet device and makes this configuration a true laptop alternative," it says.
Apple applied for the patent on Aug. 11, 2011, but it wasn't made public by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office until today. Microsoft announced the Surface in June of this year, and the device is slated for release in October. Apple hasn't yet been granted a patent for the technology.
The two approaches aren't exactly alike. For example, Apple envisions the cover being made of fabric and including a thin "flap screen" display above the keyboard. But the general concepts are similar. Here's a an excerpt from the Apple patent filing, with numbers referring to the diagram above.

Having a separate keyboard attached to tablet device 402 while tablet device 402 is in a convenient viewing angle has a number of advantages. First, this configuration gives the user an experience much closer to the one enjoyed by laptop users. Second, by allowing the user to easily view the screen and by providing a convenient surface to type on, tasks such as word processing and email become much more efficient. Third, the experience is even better in some ways than the laptop experience as most laptops do not include rear facing touch controls for video or document manipulation. Finally, the addition of flap portion 420 adds no significant weight or bulk to the tablet device and makes this configuration a true laptop alternative. Even more functionality can be added to flap portion

420 by configuring it with flap screen 504, positioned either above (as shown in FIG. 5) or below keyboard 502. When configured above keyboard 502 flap screen 504 could allow for customized virtual keys to be added specific to each application, or could be used as a way to display additional application data. Flap screen 504 could also be configured with application toolbars, or even an active application list for easily switching between active applications. When flap screen 504 is configured below keyboard 502 it could act as a replacement for a touch pad, bringing the experience even closer to a conventional laptop configuration. With this configuration a cursor can even be implemented in applications where useful.

The keyboard option is just one of the approaches described in the Apple patent application. It's clear that Apple has been envisioning lots of different uses for the iPad cover. Here's a look at some of the other diagrams, including options for using the cover as an ambient solar panels collector or an auxiliary display with — get this — a stylus as one possible input.
Be sure to check out the second reminder message in the diagram at the very bottom.
 

Very exciting tablet cover.. Thanks for sharing detailed information along with pics.. I would love to have the cover very soon.

Manje više se zna ko će biti novi šef Majkrosofta:

http://www.ign.com/articles/2014/01/30/microsoft-may-soon-name-new-ceo-could-replace-bill-gates

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The search for Microsoft's next CEO may be over. According to a new report from Bloomberg, Microsoft plans to name Satya Nadella as the company's new chief executive, replacing Steve Ballmer who announced his retirement this past August. Nadella is currently the company's Executive Vice President of the Cloud and Enterprise division, which develops the backend technology that powers Xbox Live, OneDrive, Skype, and a myriad of other services. While Nadella's appointment has not been finalized, the site's sources say he is the top contender.


Interestingly, the very same report claims that the board is also considering replacing Bill Gates as Microsoft's chairman with John Thompson — Microsoft's lead director.
It is unclear when Microsoft will finalize its plans and reveal them to the public, however, the company had previously committed to naming a new CEO in "early 2014."

mislim da nemamo temu o tabetima, pa ću moje oduševljenje novim amazonovim Fire HD 8 da strpam ovde.
110 evra je regularna cena, ja zakačila prajm dej pa ga platila 60.
evo šta sve može da radi:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A_BMXuuCzQ8