Microsoft Reportedly Showed Off New Dual-Screen Surface Device Internally
- Mehedi Hassan
- Jun 03, 2019
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Microsoft has reportedly started showing off its upcoming Surface hardware internally to employees. The Verge is reporting that the company has recently shown off its upcoming dual-screen Surface device to employees part of its devices team.
Employees apparently formed long lines to get a look at the new Surface device and were able to see a sizzle video of new Surface devices, as well as the new dual-screen device. Details about the new dual-screen device remain unknown, though we do know that the device will pave the way for a bunch of new dual-screen devices from other Windows device makers. The device is also powered by Microsoft’s new stripped-down version of Windows called Windows Lite, and it will be one of the first devices to ship with Windows Lite if it does make it to the public.
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The device has been codenamed Centaurus internally, and it’s essentially a bigger version of Microsoft’s original, pocketable Andromeda device. Andromeda’s development has been halted in favour of Centaurus, as we have known in the past. As for Centaurus, we could see the device launch for the public within the next 6 months.
The Verge reports that Microsoft has also shown off a working version of its upcoming game-streaming service xCloud, which it will show off at E3 on Sunday. The company is also apparently working on a new version of Microsoft Teams “for life” that focuses on friends and family, which will be more of a consumer-oriented version of Teams that can compete with services like WhatsApp.
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dontbe evil
<p>gonna love it</p>
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Stooks
<blockquote><em><a href="#432635">In reply to dontbe_evil:</a></em></blockquote><p>Because it is something Microsoft made? Or because you want a dual screen laptop?? Or is it Windows light you want, so you can run it on a ARM SOC, so you can emulate all the apps you run, with less performance than you get from a x86 laptop.</p><p><br></p><p>Or is it you believe all of the Pual/PWA hype and you will just run all you apps ala-PWA style???</p><p><br></p><p>I have seen those gimmicky dual screen laptops that came out at the recent trade show, the one with a main screen and then a smartphone size screen above the now cramped keyboard. Who in the H E double LL want's that BS????? </p>
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dontbe evil
<blockquote><em><a href="#432641">In reply to Stooks:</a></em></blockquote><p><br></p><p>till apple will invent these things… than will be the best evaaaaaaaaaaaaa</p>
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Stooks
<p>A dual screen Surface device running yet another version of Windows on ARM….with basically no native apps. </p><p><br></p><p>Who is running Microsoft's customer research division? Seriously are there more than 5 people asking for this kind of stuff?</p><p><br></p><p>Then again this is rumor upon rumor.</p>
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skane2600
<blockquote><em><a href="#432714">In reply to VancouverNinja:</a></em></blockquote><p>New hardware may be innovative, but a new more limited OS isn't. They could have designed it a decade ago. </p>
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Stooks
<blockquote><em><a href="#432642">In reply to hometoy:</a></em></blockquote><p>Concede what???? I am assuming you mean the phone market or the use of Chromium? Microsoft failed with both. They were too late to the show and updated way too slow.</p><p><br></p><p>The move to Chromium is a great move as was the move to get out of the phone market, in terms of devices and OS. They full on support Android and iOS and their apps on both are extremely popular, which in turn helps sell their cloud services. Those cloud services are head and shoulders above Google's cloud efforts in terms of market share and capability.</p>
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skane2600
<blockquote><em><a href="#432643">In reply to Stooks:</a></em></blockquote><p>Microsoft was out of the market for phone devices long before they started using Chromium. The market did all the "movement" required for them to get out of that market, they didn't have to do anything.</p>
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skane2600
<blockquote><em><a href="#432847">In reply to Simard57:</a></em></blockquote><p>At this point we don't know if there's <em>any</em> audience for Windows Lite. So far all non-Windows Windows have crashed and burned.</p>
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skane2600
<blockquote><em><a href="#432659">In reply to Pbike908:</a></em></blockquote><p>You mention Win32 emulation like it's a good thing. We are still waiting for a viable product at a realistic price that implements it.</p>
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skane2600
<blockquote><em><a href="#432665">In reply to saint4eva:</a></em></blockquote><p>Which guys? "They said the same thing about .." has become more of a cliché than an argument. </p>
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skane2600
<blockquote><em><a href="#432766">In reply to MikeGalos:</a></em></blockquote><p>All the article said was "we <em>could</em> see the device launch for the public within the next 6 months". I wouldn't be surprised if people were saying something similar about the Surface Phone back in 2013.</p>
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skane2600
<blockquote><em><a href="#432739">In reply to kennyb:</a></em></blockquote><p>There's plenty of Android tablets available if that's what you need. I think it's safe to say that tablet mode on any 2-in-1 device is more of a bonus feature, not the most important function. </p><p><br></p><p>But I'm not a true believer in any of these Windows jr versions regardless of the hardware they run on. There's a very long history of <em>almost compatible</em> products failing.</p>