{"id":4102,"date":"2012-06-19T15:46:52","date_gmt":"2012-06-19T14:46:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.markwilson.co.uk\/blog\/?p=4102"},"modified":"2012-06-19T23:22:55","modified_gmt":"2012-06-19T22:22:55","slug":"microsoft-surface-my-attempt-to-cut-through-the-hype","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.markwilson.co.uk\/blog\/2012\/06\/microsoft-surface-my-attempt-to-cut-through-the-hype.htm","title":{"rendered":"Microsoft Surface: my attempt to cut through the hype"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Over the last 24 hours, I&#8217;ve watched the hype build about Microsoft&#8217;s mysterious mystery event (thank goodness I missed the build-up last week as I was still on holiday in France&#8230;), watched the news break, and watched everyone either go ooooh, ahhhh, or hrmmm&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>I couldn&#8217;t stand it any more and decided that I too should weigh in with my comments on some of the comments I&#8217;ve seen about <a href=\"http:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/surface\/\">Microsoft Surface<\/a>. I may even come back and add to this list over the next few days:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Microsoft is too late to the tablet game:<\/strong>\u00a0Maybe they are. There&#8217;s the iPad, and then there&#8217;s&#8230; well, no-one really. But there&#8217;s still plenty to play for. Maybe back in 2007 someone asked for a tablet and got a table instead? Seriously, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bit-tech.net\/news\/hardware\/2011\/01\/07\/samsung-ultra-slim-surface\/1\">the device we previously knew as Surface was rebranded PixelSense last year<\/a>, but <a href=\"http:\/\/www.goodgearguide.com.au\/article\/428043\/there_no_pixelsense_about_new_microsoft_surface_tablets\/\">we don&#8217;t seem to get the PixelSense screen tech in the Surface tablets<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li><strong>It looks good:<\/strong> it does &#8211; <em>really<\/em> good. But we don&#8217;t yet know enough about the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/global\/surface\/en\/us\/renderingassets\/surfacespecsheet.pdf\">Surface hardware<\/a> &#8211; if this is underpowered, or battery life is poor, or the screen is unresponsive, then it will fail, just like all the other iPad wannabes.<\/li>\n<li><strong>The keyboard in the cover is a gimmick\/great idea\/<a href=\"http:\/\/www.zdnet.com\/blog\/hardware\/surface-why-microsofts-big-mystery-turns-out-to-be-a-big-mistake\/20857\">an admission that soft keyboards don&#8217;t work<\/a>:<\/strong>\u00a0horses for courses, I&#8217;d say &#8211; there are times when I use my iPad keyboard and times when I elect for a physical version &#8211; this way we get both.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Microsoft is cutting OEM&#8217;s throats?<\/strong> <em>Are they really?\u00a0<\/em>My view (personally, not as an employee) is that it&#8217;s saying &#8220;come on guys, this is what can be done when you put your mind to it &#8211; stop letting Apple run away with the tablet market and design something that&#8217;s just as good, now that we have (finally) got an operating system (nearly) ready for you&#8221;. But there is an issue when (presumably) Microsoft doesn&#8217;t charge itself <a href=\"http:\/\/www.zdnet.com\/blog\/perlow\/surface-microsoft-what-the-hell-is-wrong-with-you\/20599\">$85 per device for a copy of Windows<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li><strong>This will undermine Ultrabook sales:<\/strong>\u00a0perhaps it will, but however big the marketing push, they would have been niche anyway. Do IT Managers really have money to spend on &#8220;sexy&#8221; laptops when functional ones cost half as much? <a href=\"http:\/\/www.zdnet.com\/blog\/diy-it\/okay-let-me-get-this-straight-did-microsoft-just-kill-the-windows-tablet-oem-market\/614\">It might have killed off the Windows tablet market though<\/a>, except that\u00a0Surface will only be available from Microsoft Stores and online, which limits its availability somewhat, and makes it a consumer-only purchase. OEMs don&#8217;t really need to worry too much (sure, PC sales are in decline&#8230; but there are many factors behind that and mobile devices have been expected to surpass PC for a while now). And for those of us outside the US&#8230; we might not even get a sniff.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Ah, so it&#8217;s for consumers, so it puts Microsoft back in the game when it comes to consumerisation?<\/strong> Hrm Not really.\u00a0On BYOD, there seems to be a shift towards choose your own device (CYOD) &#8211; i.e. we&#8217;ll give you more choice, maybe even let you contribute to have a better device, but it needs to run Windows. CIOs do need to re-architect applications to embrace cloud, mobility, big data and consumerisation &#8211; but that&#8217;s a big ask and it&#8217;s not happening overnight. Until then there&#8217;s life in Windows 7 (and 8) for a while. And laptops\/tablets are only one side of the story; Microsoft is still struggling for smartphone market share&#8230;<\/li>\n<li><strong>Two versions of Windows, both on Surface devices, one that runs Windows RT and one for Windows 8 Pro &#8211; what gives?<\/strong> On this I agree, <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.forrester.com\/sarah_rotman_epps\/12-06-18-microsofts_surface_tablets_why_windows_is_its_own_worst_enemy\">it will confuse the market<\/a>. Maybe the x86 hardware\u00a0should\u00a0have been a reference platform for OEMs to sell in the business market, with ARM to consumers?<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.guardian.co.uk\/technology\/2012\/jun\/19\/microsoft-surface-tablet-analysts\"><strong>Analysts say&#8230;<\/strong><\/a> Really. There is some really good insight there, seriously. But now what do CIOs say? How about: where will this help me to deliver business value; what&#8217;s the impact on the rest of the IT environment; how can I transition to become a competitive (internal) IT <em>service<\/em> provider who no longer cares about devices and operating systems? Having said that, I think Forrester&#8217;s Sarah Rotman Epps is correct to highlight <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.forrester.com\/sarah_rotman_epps\/12-06-18-microsofts_surface_tablets_why_windows_is_its_own_worst_enemy\">issues with the way Windows is marketed and sold<\/a>, and IDC&#8217;s Crawford Del Prete (<a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/craw\">@Craw<\/a>) is right on the money:<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<div>[blackbirdpie url=&#8221;https:\/\/twitter.com\/Craw\/status\/214873118030839809&#8243;]<\/div>\n<p>For some time now, we (geeks, tech journalists and IT types like me) have lambasted Microsoft for being unimaginative, lacking innovation, and for being late to market. This time they have something bold, exciting and that could really shake up the way that PCs look and feel. They&#8217;ve also kept it secret and created a buzz (albeit a little too early, some might say) perhaps\u00a0a bit like another company that seems to get credit for everything it does&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Let&#8217;s give the Surface a chance to get out of the door before we write it off, hey? It could actually be really good.<\/p>\n<div class=\"jetpack-video-wrapper\"><span class=\"embed-youtube\" style=\"text-align:center; display: block;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"youtube-player\" width=\"700\" height=\"394\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/dpzu3HM2CIo?version=3&#038;rel=1&#038;showsearch=0&#038;showinfo=1&#038;iv_load_policy=1&#038;fs=1&#038;hl=en-GB&#038;autohide=2&#038;wmode=transparent\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" style=\"border:0;\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts allow-same-origin allow-popups allow-presentation allow-popups-to-escape-sandbox\"><\/iframe><\/span><\/div>\n<p><em>Now, what are they doing about smartphones?<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Over the last 24 hours, I&#8217;ve watched the hype build about Microsoft&#8217;s mysterious mystery event (thank goodness I missed the build-up last week as I was still on holiday in France&#8230;), watched the news break, and watched everyone either go ooooh, ahhhh, or hrmmm&#8230; I couldn&#8217;t stand it any more and decided that I too &hellip; 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