Microsoft Corporation(NASDAQ:MSFT) will soon introduce
its three new and distinct generations of its Surface tablets in 2013, Tech
Crunch reported citing a Microsoft tipster's tweet.
It only makes sense that they would go big with both
Surface and Windows 8, making up for lost time with plenty of shapes and sizes.
After all, the company bet a lot on the popularity of a brand-new Microsoft,
complete with Metro, touch, and true entry into the hardware space, the report
by Tech Crunch said.
The company's strategy to go aggressive with its
tablets is in line with Chief Executive Steve Ballmer's recent statements in a
letter to shareholders that it would be focussing more on the mobile space
compared to the traditional computing space, which have been its bread and
butter so far.
According to Tech Crunch the first tablet is said to
be an 8.6-inch Surface RT 2, running on a Qualcomm chipset instead of the
NVIDIA Tegra 3 chip.
The Microsoft Pro will allegedly upgrade to an 11.6-inch
display with an unreleased AMD “Temash” APU, and a new Surface Book product
will sport a hefty 14.6-inch display with a next-gen 22nm “Haswell” chip from
Intel under the hood.
With a 10.6 inches screen, Microsoft's current Surface
tablet is the largest in the segment, even bigger than the Apple's iPad, which
at 9.7 inches is fairly large.
It will be interesting to see how the market reacts to
anything above 11 inches in size. After all the whole attractiveness of the
tablets lie in their compact size combined with the power of their computing.
An 11 inch display is as good as a laptop or a notebook.
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