Podcast | Microsoft chief product officer Panos Panay, who leads the development of the company’s Surface product line, is enthused about the future of the personal computer. TechCentral spoke to him in this exclusive interview.
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Microsoft on Wednesday said the Surface Duo, its dual-screen smartphone powered by Android, will start at a price of $1 399 and arrive in stores from 10 September. It will not be sold in South Africa at launch.
The boss of Microsoft’s Surface devices says the company does not call its new Surface Duo a phone because that is a “limiting word”.
Now that Microsoft has restored some of its former glory, the company is going for an even more unlikely comeback: rewriting the history of its much-maligned phone business.
Microsoft has already cracked the professional and creative markets with inventive tablets and a desktop that turns into a virtual drafting table. Now it’s chasing another category many believe is Apple’s to lose: the
Microsoft on Tuesday surprised industry watchers by revealing it’s getting into the laptop computer business, taking the wraps off a powerful, 13,5-inch notebook PC, the Surface Book, that doubles as a tablet. The machine, which starts at US$1 499 (about R20 500 before VAT