SDD, known good hardware, known fixed 1080p screen size and multitouch capabilities, corporate control, pen (natural transition to touchiness)
MS should demo a locked GPO set with apps distro, system center stuff and lay it down in classrooms. it should all be driven by surface pros.
surface pros / known capability compute node units might be one day linked into clusters via a hyperv controller and made into slottable nodes for class / school scenarios.
Imagine a library or school or other system you will that might devote a percentage of their resources to business process / presence / running their sites, securing their gateways, and a percentage to presentation, or usage by users.
imagine again a selection of available capabilities for a corporation where I might only be able to have email services if I have 2 or more of the tablets docked with the server / charge / maintenance bay unit.
I might only be able to have live meeting / voip / sip capabilities for 16/32 users per surface pro tablet devoted to that. if there is a confirmed known good hardware node in known good network QoS configuration in appropriate locations.
I might choose to devote a system to extend Remote Desktop or application services to a group of relic but networked systems, or do some kind of multi point thing.
its all on ssd. the nodes (blade servers / surface pros in this case) all have good hardware, good enough cpu and capable IO storage and USB transfer speeds.
they could be rapidly reimaged to perform any number of tasks.
…they’d look so nice lined up in a special vertical charging station for 30 units a little more than they do spinning around with mean looking school girl anger dancers (odd commercial).
that’s the shit they hand out in shinji’s class on the first day at nerv. if he drops it in the tub mommy and daddy get a bill and he’s up online in the morning with his laundry and the IT man just smiles. there’s a market.
wipe them between classes. students please pick up your tablet, take exam. it gets wiped. recycle. student takes personal backup of exam, notes, recording of class audio / vid etc. on bitlocker-to-go ID device with integrated storage – that f*ing talks. yay.
excellent training for IT teams imo – so can be ready to deploy the coming wave of touch enabled laptops tablets and desktops.
sufficient storage to do some neat things, sufficient CPU and RAM to make hyperv do something creative. Good ramp to the bigger version.
known node ‘size’ and capabilities. might be useful for multi computer processing tasks, this cloudlet stuff they should be doing more of on cell phones for things like traffic jam avoidance systems (oncoming traffic comms you traffic data its seen if smartphone user running navigation etc.) over public wifi it tries to cluster along road in dynamic smartphone net (easier to put up when participating nodes jammed or slowed in traffic so they gather more data then. the when they move they tell oncoming traffic about jam, who go on to tell people behind slowed communicator).
it would be nice to have the idea of known hardware tether capability to other MS systems in cars like that sync thing. tethered processing resource / capabilities provider / storage / media etc. dnla can it do wifi? dunno at all.. nm for now.
they need to make a good messenger bag for it with solar charge sewn in.
also a fancy battery with a panel, or one of the soft keyboards they do with a panel on the underside.
even if its trickle, people would pay for the extension. especially with usb 3.0 charge port capabilities for cell phones and other devices over usb. it becomes a power station. make a pretty app that shows the world wide combined power generation. easy win. id pay 200-500 to the kickstand to have cells in it.
backside of kickstand so when open solar panel angles towards sky as user user uses in workstation mode.
YES – if MS is serious – 3.5kUSD lmited ed version of surface pro. suitably specced. WACOM digitizer built in (see sony duo 11!) – that’d be showcase and openly stated forward test model. like a front webcam version of kinect, or a nub that sticks out a bit and gives near touch sense capabilities with IR – i’m imagining air hockey rink edges catching IR in a manner perhaps like that which is used for the wrist mounted camera MS is working on – Digits . http://youtu.be/Tm2IuVfNEGk. perhaps a targeted version that scans the area near the surface of the touch screen. they could call it the surface ; line. change the color of it with every edition. OFFER 1000 dollar full graphic lazer engraving customization option… yes… this things supposed to be the best you can do.
sweeten the deal with a tier of msdn universal that comes with a swap program where you get to trade up your included version of this thing with every new edition. couple that with live dev support. make it UNGODLY expensive.
envy, and available power. not in anyones face, just there for those that know it.
that or an untrasound thingama-bogobob that does the sme thing but with v low power.
mayhaps they’ll figure out how to do short range, low power scintillations to project image up off side mounted things. who knows? someone did make a machine that’d make cloud’s indoors. steamy laptops? Gorilla glass has got their work cut out for them.
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paste eating Microsoft needs to play hard, fast red-black.
Dissemination Machine 