We’re watching the live Windows 10 devices event – announcing new Microsoft Band, Lumia 950 and 950XL, Microsoft Surface Pro 4 and Surface Book!

Live video stream found here:

http://www.microsoft.com/october2015event/en-us/live-event

We’re expecting to hear more about the next generation Surface – And by the way, we’re now a Surface Commercial Reseller in Australia!

Introduction

• 110 million users now on Windows 10
• New Instagram, Facebook and Messenger Universal Apps coming soon!
• New devices to be announced!

Xbox

• Windows 10 coming this holidays.
• Xbox 360 compatibility coming on Windows 10 on Xbox.
• C’mon, get to the Surface!

HoloLens

• Live HoloLens demo
• Project X-Ray demonstration using the Live-HoloLens-View cameras that we saw at WPC.
• Holograms you can hold! Awesome…
• Applications for the HoloLens Development Kit – Shipping in Q1 for US$3000

Microsoft Band

• Version 2 announced
• Curved display
• More customisation options
• More Cortana integration
• Now has a barometer!
• New Microsoft Health App
• Available Oct 30 – US$249

Surface and Lumia!

• Surface is $3.5 Billion yearly sales
• 1000 new Lumia Business Customers
• Panos Panay – Head of Microsoft Devices comes to stage!
• He’s annoyed at the media who leaked the info 😉

• Lumia 950 Family
• 2 Antennas in the phone – switches to best option automatically
• 950XL Octacore and 950 Hexacore Qualcomm Processors
• Liquid Cooling
• Glance features on Windows 10 and Lumia 950 and 950XL
• OLED Organic LED displays
• 32 Mb Storage
• Expandable storage with MicroSD
• USB C connector – 5Gb/second
• Fast charging

• 20MP Sensor – great in Low Light – Zeiss Lens
• Triple LED flash
• Optical Stabilizer
• Dedicated camera button retained
• 4K Video

• Brian Roper – This guy is cool, we met him at WPC.
• Office, Cortana, Skype, OneDrive, Edge, Outlook – the most productive phone.
• Hello authentication with onboard camera – no passwords!
• Microsoft Display Dock

• Using the dock to connect an external display, keyboard and mouse.
• Apps running off phone expand to look like they’re on a PC.

•  Standard keyboard shortcuts work on the phone when using the dock.
• Running Word on your phone – in full desktop view!

• Plug in your USB media to your phone via the dock.
• Productive like a boss wherever you are!
• Miracast native support
• HDMI 1080P video streaming out of the phone!

• US$549

• US$649

Surface

• It’s Surface time!
• Bob Mileti – Industrial Designer Testimonial Video
• Using SolidEdge on Surface Pro 3 and writing with the Pen
• Surface is used to design the Surface. 😉
• 98% of users would recommend it!

• 6th Generation Intel Core i7 processors!
• 16Gb RAM!
• 1Tb Storage!
• Truly a device that can replace a laptop and a tablet!
• 12.3″ Screen
• 5 Million Pixel Display

• Pixel Sense
• .4mm Gorilla Glass 4
• G5 Chipset from Microsoft – for best pen and touch experience

New Surface Pen

• Has an eraser 😉
• 50% of people with Sp3 use the pen!
• 1024 levels pressure
• Full year of battery life
• No recharging!
• New magnetic attachment for pen storage.

• Hold the pen eraser to launch OneNote!
• Double click the eraser to screenshot to OneNote!
• Hold the pen eraser down longer to launch Cortana.
• New interchangeable pen tips – with individual feel profiles (like ballpoint to felt tip).

• Drawboard PDF gets a mention! (An application out of Melbourne, Australia that ships free on all Surface 3 and Surface Pro 4 devices!!)
• StaffPad – natural music composition
• Adobe Photoshop, LightRoom, Premiere will be incredible on this device!

• 30% better than Surface Pro 3
• 50% faster than MacBook Air
• 16Gb, 1Tb, Core i7 options – no compromises.
• Thinner, lighter, more pixels!

• New Dock for both Surface Pro 3 and Surface Pro 4!
• Connects through power port, but you don’t need a fixed angle on the desk.
• Has USB3 Ports and supports 2x 4K Screens

• New cover, works with Surface Pro 3 and Surface Pro 4
• Lighter, thinner, more sturdy
• Better keys – 1.3mm travel
• Bigger trackpad

• Panos demonstrates family switching users with his kids at home…
• Fingerprint reader build into the Surface Pro Keyboard.
• Front facing camera is full Intel 3D Sense infra red camera for super secure authentication – more secure than password.

Surface Pro 4

• Available October 26 (USA)
• We’ll have one here to try and demonstrate by November 10!

New product announcement – Microsoft Surface Book

• New 13″ laptop with 12 hours battery life
• 13.5″ Pixel Sense Screen
• 6 Million Pixels
• Touch, Pen and Typing Experience all in one.
• 1.6mm travel on keys. 16 years of Microsoft Keyboard technology applied.
• NVidia dedicated graphics
• Built for gamers, coders, designers, architects and engineers.
• Aimed at MacBook Pro – 2x faster
• Works with new Surface dock.
• Live demo of Adobe Premiere Pro on Surface Book – smooth live GPU output – no frames dropped!
• US$1499 – October 26th.

• Is actually a Surface Tablet too!
• The extra GPU is housed in the detachable keyboard.
• 13.5″ tablet 7.7mm thin.
• USB ports are in the keyboard base.
• Surface Pen magnetically attached to the side.
• Is a hybrid tablet.
• My USA Surface MVP friends are all first to get their hands on the Surface Book tablets! Hi guys!
• Dynamic Fulcrum hinge design – electronic releases – muscle wire.
• Screen mounts either way…

• It’s a big book!

Satya Nadella

• Moving people from needing Windows to loving Windows
• Windows Store visits and app acquisition is up
• Windows 10 devices are ready
• We will build devices to be the best they can possibly be!