Microsoft Declares Surface: New Family of PCs for Windows

Microsoft-made components to be available beginning with launch of Microsoft windows 8 and Microsoft windows RT.

Yesterday at an event in Artist, Microsoft revealed Surface: PCs developed to be the ultimate level for Microsoft windows. Company professionals revealed two Microsoft windows pills and accessories that feature significant developments in business style and attention to detail. Area is developed to effortlessly changeover between intake and creation, without bargain. It provides the power of awesome application with Microsoft windows and the experience of top quality components in one interesting encounter.

Advances in Industrial Design

Conceived, developed and designed entirely by Microsoft workers, and building on the organization's 30-year history production components, Area symbolizes a exclusive perspective for the smooth concept of enjoyment and creativeness. Comprehensive investment in business style and real buyer includes the following highlights:

Software takes center stage: Area sports a full-sized USB port and a 16:9 aspect rate – the industry standard for HD. It has sides set at an angle at 22 levels, a organic position for the PC at rest or in effective use, allowing the components reduce into the background and the application stand out.

VaporMg: The covering of Area is created using a exclusive strategy called VaporMg (pronounced Vapor-Mag), a combination of material choice and process to pattern metal and first deposit contaminants that makes a finish similar to a luxury watch. Beginning mineral magnesium vitamin, parts can be shaped as slim as .65 mm, slimmer than the typical bank card, to create a product that is slim, light and rigid/strong.

Integrated Kickstand: The exclusive VaporMg strategy also enables a built-in kickstand that lets you changeover Area from effective use to inactive intake – watching a movie or even using the HD front- or rear-facing cameras. The kickstand is there when needed, and vanishes when not in use, with no excess weight or width.

Touch Cover: The 3 mm Contact Protect symbolizes a advancement in human-computer user interface. Using a exclusive pressure-sensitive technology, Contact Protect feelings key strokes as actions, helping you to the touch kind significantly faster than with an on-screen key pad. It will be available in a choice of vivid colors. Contact Protect presses into Area via a built-in magnetic plug, developing a organic backbone like you find on a book, and works as a safety cover. You can also click in a 5 mm-thin Type Protect that contributes moving important factors for a more traditional entering experience.

An Amazing Microsoft windows Experience

Two models of Area will be available: one running an ARM brand presenting Microsoft windows RT, and one with a third-generation Apple Primary brand presenting Microsoft windows 8 Pro. From the fast and liquid user interface, to the ease of linking you to the people, information and applications that users care about most, Area will be a top quality way to encounter all that Microsoft windows has to offer. Area for Microsoft windows RT will launch with the general option Microsoft windows 8, and the Microsoft windows 8 Pro model will be available about 90 days later. Both will be sold in the Microsoft Store places in the U.S. and available through select online Microsoft Stores.

Contributing to an Extended Ecosystem

One of the strong points of Microsoft windows is its extensive environment of application and components associates, providing choice and choice that makes a client's Microsoft windows encounter exclusively their own. This continues with Area. Microsoft is providing a exclusive participation to an already powerful and growing environment of efficient and fashionable devices provided by original equipment producers (OEMs) to bring the encounter of Microsoft windows to customers and businesses around the planet.

Additional Product Information
Surface for Windows RT

OS: Windows RT
Light(1): 676 g
Thin(2): 9.3 mm
Clear: 10.6" ClearType HD Display
Energized: 31.5 W-h
Connected: microSD, USB 2.0, Micro HD Video, 2x2 MIMO antennae
Productive: Office '15' Apps, Touch Cover, Type Cover
Practical: VaporMg Case & Stand
Configurable: 32 GB, 64 GB

Surface for Windows 8 Pro

OS: Windows 8 Pro
Light(1): 903 g
Thin(2): 13.5 mm
Clear: 10.6" ClearType Full HD Display
Energized: 42 W-h
Connected: microSDXC, USB 3.0, Mini DisplayPort Video, 2x2 MIMO antennae
Productive: Touch Cover, Type Cover, Pen with Palm Block
Practical: VaporMg Case & Stand
Configurable: 64 GB, 128 GB

(1), (2). Actual size and weight of the device may vary due to configuration and manufacturing process.

Suggested retail pricing will be announced closer to availability and is expected to be competitive with a comparable ARM tablet or Intel Ultrabook-class PC. OEMs will have cost and feature parity on Windows 8 and Windows RT.

For more information about Surface, visit http://www.surface.com.