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The surface pro didn't do anything new at all. It was windows for tablets with decent industrial design (great design aside from the keyboards). It's not like A
by Tloewald 11y ago
The surface pro didn't do anything new at all. It was windows for tablets with decent industrial design (great design aside from the keyboards). It's not like Apple hadn't dicked around with keyboard covers et al since back in the Newton days. This isn't a question of who did hardware feature X first but who did user feature Y right. The jury is out but when I went to a Microsoft store ready to buy a maxed out surface pro, five minutes with the keyboard and microsoft's horrible UI designs turned me off. (I see in the MS office demo that they've removed some cruft but still don't design decent touch UIs. )
- hunterloftis 11y agoYep I loved the idea of the surface; tried to use it to replace my mb air for but ended up returning it because the ecosystem was terrible and the keyboard was annoying.
- skc 11y agoHuh? It's full windows and yet the ecosystem was terrible? Doesn't compute.
- wlesieutre 11y agoI have a Surface Pro. I'm generally pretty happy with it. But the selection of programs that are comfortable to use with the touchscreen is very small. In my case, pretty much web browsing, email, Netflix, and OneNote. For typical programs, you'll either be fat-fingering buttons that are too small or you'll be pulling out the stylus frequently. The tablet experience does not compare well to an iPad.
- npunt 11y ago'Full windows' is exactly the reason the ecosystem is terrible. The uniqueness of the Surface hardware is not matched by the software. Thus, besides a few brand-name apps, most ignore touch capability and code for regular Windows to reach a broader audience. Its a perfectly rational response to Microsoft setting the wrong context for an otherwise fine product.
- 72deluxe 11y agoVery interesting. Does the windows API have dedicated touch events? I listen for mouse down, mouse up, mouse motion (or use a timer and poll the mouse location is a button is down), drag and drop events etc. but I suspect on a touchscreen device all of the touch events are just handed to the system as mouse events. I wouldn't like to think how MFC handles pinch to zoom, for example.
- blazespin 11y agoMouse is horrible, a bit over priced for the cpu but other than that it's great - good form factor and nice pen.
- sremani 11y agoThe ground work for Surface Pro was Windows 8, so yes, Microsoft did hybrid OS, and Surface Pro was their "Hero" device. The touch/type cover was innovative but annoying. Surface Pro (with Windows 8+) like it or not is a ground-breaking device.
- michaelbuddy 11y agoyes it did. outstandng stylus and multi-touch performance in a package that was a full OS, but also had the touch app ecosystem.