Microsoft Surface
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Surface is a
new tablet for from Microsoft. Microsoft itself manufactured the surface
hardware device and powered by newer version windows operating system. We can
use it as a tablet PC or like ultra book. Surface will be launched in two flavors.
·
Surface
with ARM processor which will run on Windows
RT.
·
Surface
with Intel processor (i5) which will run on Windows Pro.
The following are the main specs
of Surface
1.
Window
RT or windows Pro version of windows 8.
2.
Maximum
built in storage memory 128 GB.
3.
Micro
SD card for extended memory.
4.
USB
3.0 supported in pro version.
Features:
1.
Surface
will come with a surface cover which will also act as a separate keyboard
device. This is the key component of
surface. Keyboard is connected to surface magnetically.
2.
Surface
will also come with back stand to support vertical placement of surface so that
we can use it without event holding it in hands or touching it.
3.
Internal
graphics card support.
4.
Supports
simultaneous interaction of touch points.
Application Development for surface
There are lots of opportunities for developers to go for application development
for surface as new platforms and technologies has been developed and the scope
of already existed technologies has been extended for surface application
development environment.
We can develop applications in WPF,
HTML, CSS, XNA for gaming, JavaScript and new framework introduced by Microsoft
i.e. Windows Runtime (Windows RT).