NEW YORK – “110 million people use Windows 10″, are the first words of Terry Myerson Microsoft, those which opens the event dedicated to new hardware and software products, hashtag # Windows10devices. It ‘an opportunity to reveal to the world the devices with which the Redmond company raises the challenge of platforms, but also to introduce new substantial as Hololens, a 3D viewer staff. And then two new Surface, two new smartphones Lumia, a regeneration of products and services going from desktop to mobile and video games, with the basic common denominator: This Windows 10. Microsoft has shown today in New York, making it clear that the its new operating system is not just a Windows version in more than one platform but without widespread use of boundaries, from the computer to the console, from the phone to the tablet through the category of “hybrid”, just as that of the Surface: powerful laptop and tablet together , joined by the interface of Windows 10 double that adapts to the way in which the user decides to use the device. Closing the keynote, takes the stage at the Microsoft, Satya Nadella. “Windows 10 is incredible leap forward,” he says, summing up his vision of Microsoft, one that departs from a “core” software, declined on each device, pc to cuff fitness. What you see is the keynote as well as products are ready to face a cutthroat market, is the new role of Microsoft in a context in which the desktop and mobile devices we use every day integrate more deeply with our lives. The Redmond company has focused on creating an ecosystem in which switch between device is a natural operation and experience without a hitch. In this sense the quality of the products and strong investment on Windows 10 as the heart of this “continuity”, has brought noticeable results. Microsoft is holding a lineup of high-level devices, the new Surface appear as the ideal synthesis, key in Windows, including the world where you meet desktop and mobile in which many see the carrier market, see also Apple with ‘ iPad Pro, Google with the pixel C and Samsung with 12.2 Notes. With a common platform such as Windows 10, Lumia smartphones come from being a viable alternative to iOS and Android, and technically compete on equal terms. At the technological level reached by the time the end of the market and these two new “flagship” is clearly pose as an alternative to the iPhone and Galaxy – and link with these high-level features to expand the user base, but also to developers and then the fundamental parameter of the amplitude of the catalog of applications available.
Hololens . The first wildcard that Microsoft drops on the table is called Hololens and a holographic display, which opens the way to ” holographic computer “. It is a wearable display that creates an augmented reality around the user wearing them, in fact, be used for a multitude of applications, from professional, medical, industrial video games.
It ‘just a game that Microsoft demonstrates Hololens leaving the room in awe: around the player appear enemies robots that can be eliminated through a glove laser, but this does not exist in real reality in the virtual one. For now the launch is postponed Hololens but will soon be available for developers at a cost of $ 3,000. When you get to be a consumer product the figure presumably will drop a lot, and the battle is mainly against the Oculus Rift Facebook. The immediate future will be short, augmented reality and connected, a market totally to explore. Hololens is an important asset, and Microsoft knows it, putting it in the opening keynote.
Microsoft Band . News for the bracelet smart and connected, dedicated to sport, physical activity and monitoring body: the second generation of Band Microsoft brings to the market a much more complete than the first, with more sensors (a barometer for example). There is also a sleep monitor very comprehensive and of course all data is synchronized with the app Microsoft Health. Also in the band now is Cortana, the personal voice assistant. And that changes everything: band smartwatch now is one, not just a test article. Integration with Windows 10 is complete, the focus of the device is on sport and the body, but it is actually a bracelet handyman.
Lumia 950-950 XL . The new Lumia 950 and XL 950 are two smartphones with which Microsoft relaunches the brand through a series of important innovations. Certainly the new room, 20-megapixel, optical stabilizer of the fifth generation, triple-LED flash and a dedicated button clicks. But especially with a significant power, CPU and esacore octacore the largest model – the displays are respectively 5.2 and 5 inches, technology Glance. So much power that it must be cooled by liquid, such as PCs dedicated to gaming. And powerful enough to have a dedicated accessory, display the Dock, to connect them to the monitor and USB accessories (keyboards, mice) like a cpu. In the demonstration stage, the Lumia 950 runs as a Windows 10, with applications that “explode” on the monitor connected with the contents of your phone accessible and navigable through folders. A mini-PC Windows 10 in your pocket, basically. The prices for Italy are 699 and 799 including VAT, respectively for 950 and 950XL. Will be available from November.
Surface Pro 4 . Surface chapter opens with the sales numbers, doubled last year. And then comes the Surface Pro 4, display remarkable, 12.3-inch, 5 million pixels, 267 ppi, glass Gorilla Glass GG4. And ‘naturally thin and powerful 3. “The Macbook Air is a great product,” says Microsoft, “But Surface Pro 4 is 50% faster.” Communication comparative Use is common practice, but then you go to the technical specifications of the new product: the thickness is 8.4mm, there is a sensor for reading fingerprints on the keyboard completely redesigned, with mechanical “Butterfly” for keys, Microsoft now says “quality laptop”. The display incorporates the latest technology for the touch pen from Microsoft and also the pen is new: it has 1024 levels of pressure and the rubber on the other side than the tip. The battery lasts “all year”, says Microsoft. The browser Edge of Windows 10, with its native capabilities to record the notes taken on the screen, located in the natural terrain Surface Pro 4 and the new pen: the demo on the screen shows a composer who works on the staff in speed, writing notes and defining the performance of the score. Prices including VAT in Italy from 1029 €.
Surface Book . That’s not all, indeed, Microsoft wants to impress. And on stage comes Surface Book, a name that already evokes war between Redmond and Cupertino. It ‘the first laptop from Microsoft, and is an outpost technological display 13-inch latest generation of Intel i7 CPU and GDDR5 memory, Nvidia GeForce graphics processor, 12 hours of battery. And according to the specifications of Redmons, is “twice as fast” to a Macbook Pro. And the design recalls the competing product, the metallic look with rounded corners to light metallic color. In the Surface Book though the display is off and you hang up, making the laptop configured as a PC or a tablet, or a graft between the two.
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