TAIPEI, Taiwan, May 29, 2019 /PRNewswire/ -- Microsoft today
discussed how new modern Windows PCs, connected devices and IoT
services and programs at Computex 2019.
"We continue to work closely with our partners to deliver
intelligent edge solutions that enhance work and life experiences.
The breadth of new PCs, IoT devices and IoT solutions on display at
Computex, along with future ecosystem innovations will drive growth
and business transformation for partners and customers," said
Nick Parker, CVP, Consumer and
Device Sales, Microsoft.
Partners are Delivering Modern PC Experiences
Partners including Acer, Asus, Dell, HP, Lenovo and MSI have
recently announced new modern PCs that will delight both creators
and gamers. Some of the
highlights[1] include:
- Acer's ConceptD 9 creator notebook features a
4K UHD IPS PANTONE Validated display.
Colors are as accurate as possible as the display covers 100
percent of the Adobe RGB color gamut. This creator notebook stays
quiet with Acer's 4th generation AeroBlade 3D Fan
with a noise reduction mechanism that emits less than
40 db of noise -- equivalent to the sound level of a
library -- while maintaining high computing and graphics
performance.
- The Asus ZenBook Pro Duo (UX581) is an ultraportable
laptop that includes a 4K OLED UHD
ASUS ScreenPad Plus (3840 x 2160), a full-width secondary
touchscreen (3840 x 1100) that expands and enhances the interactive
capabilities of the original ASUS ScreenPad. The display is a
frameless four-sided ASUS NanoEdge design, with ultra slim bezels
for immersive visuals.
- The new Dell XPS 13 2-in-1 packs more
performance in a thinner design and larger display. Dell's first
laptop with Intel's Ice Lake-U 10nm 10th gen processors and
features adaptive performance based on the latest Intel Dynamic
Tuning Technology, which proactively changes the power of the CPU
according to the performance of the workload. It comes with a
redesigned thermal system to cool the higher performing processor,
while creating an overall 8% thinner 2-in-1 than the previous
generation.
- HP OMEN X 2S is the world's first dual-screen
gaming laptop[2], allowing player to chat, browse for their perfect
songs to accompany their gaming sessions, watch Twitch or YouTube,
or even serve as a hub for OMEN Command Center software through an
easy-to-use 6-inch 1080p touchscreen above the keyboard --
freeing them from the hassles of alt-tabbing. The laptop
also features a real-time screen mirroring feature that
enhances the gaming experience, by cutting and magnifying parts of
the main screen -- such as copying the map portion of a racing
game -- to a second screen, ensuring centered vision and more
vertical head movement.
- The new Lenovo ThinkPad T495 offers feature upgrades
without compromise, and provides a high level of hardware security
and manageability. It features a longer battery life, and increased
performance by up to 18 percent (compared to benchmarks of prior
generations). Lenovo is also delivering greater peace of mind with
just a slide of the ThinkShutter, an all-in-one integrated
camera security cover that physically protects ThinkPad users from
malicious webcam snoopers.
- Featuring the latest RTX graphics and 9th Generation Intel Core
i9 processor and Wi-Fi 6, the new MSI GE65 Raider can
easily handle demanding AAA game titles. Its ultra-fast 240Hz
IPS-level thin bezel display ensures sharp and clear images in a
compact form factor, and the new two-toned mesh design at the
underside of the unit, inspired by a dragon theme, provides better
ventilation and prevents hot air from recirculating.
These new modern PCs from ecosystem partners require a modern
operating system that enables foundational experiences customers
already expect from their devices, including seamless updates,
security that protects users from malicious attacks, anywhere
connectivity with 5G, LTE and Wi-Fi that is consistent and reliable
over time. Beyond that, the modern OS must deliver innovative new
human centric experiences including cloud connectivity that enables
seamless access to data and compute power, rich AI powered
applications and experiences, multi-sense capabilities - people can
interact using touch, pen, voice, mouse and keyboard - and
the right sensor support and posture awareness to enable a breadth
of new form factors and applications.
"Microsoft is investing to enable modern OS experiences that
take advantage of silicon advancements, powerful PCs, the cloud and
the power of AI. Some of these innovations, including Asian Inking
platform, cognitive recognition services that help with photo
tagging, as well as the new Your Phone capabilities that lets users
mirror their Android phone screen on their PC, are new innovations
users can expect in the coming months," said Parker.
Powering Intelligent Edge and Internet of Things
(IoT)
At Computex, Microsoft also shared new services and programs
that hardware manufacturers can leverage to get their devices
connected and included in IoT solutions:
- IoT Plug and Play is a new open modelling language to
connect IoT devices to the cloud seamlessly, helping device
partners to deploy IoT solutions at scale. This provides partners a
straightforward way to model the capabilities and data coming from
their IoT devices and will provide customers with a large portfolio
of partner-certified devices that can easily be made to work with
any IoT solution, often without writing any new code.
- Microsoft Azure IoT Device Agent V2 for Windows 10 IoT
lets operators configure, monitor and manage their devices remotely
from their Azure dashboard. It provides an open-source, ready to
build package that creates and manages the Azure IoT Hub identities
on the device, manages the cloud connection and its renewal,
provides a plug-in model for platform components, which allows easy
onboarding to various Azure services, including discovery,
initialization, error reporting and state aggregation. It also
comes with a set of ready-to-ship plug-ins for commonly used
platform components and leverages Azure IoT Module twin so a
separate UWP app is not required to connect to Azure IoT Hub.
- Azure IoT Central is a fully managed global IoT SaaS
(software-as-a-service) solution that makes it easy to connect,
monitor, and manage IoT assets at scale. New custom dashboard
features allow partners to bring their own brand and user
experience to their IoT solution, and benefit from the built-in
security, reliability, device connectivity and role-based user
account management provided by IoT Central.
Partners such as Techsun and Advantech are implementing IoT
solutions built on Microsoft's comprehensive, trusted and
easy-to-use edge to cloud platforms to embrace business model
transformation and accelerate time to value for customers.
"At Microsoft our goal is to simplify IoT -- from the cloud down to the smallest
microcontroller (MCU) based devices, and we do this by meeting our
partners and customers where they are, with the right intelligent
cloud services, software and dev tools, to get devices connected,
and manage their solutions at scale," added Parker.
About Microsoft
Microsoft (Nasdaq "MSFT" @microsoft)
enables digital transformation for the era of an intelligent cloud
and an intelligent edge. Its mission is to empower every person and
every organization on the planet to achieve more.
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Market availability
to be confirmed
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[2]
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Based on gaming
laptops shipped as of April 15, 2019 with integrated dual-screens.
Gaming laptops defined as laptops with models targeting
specifically to gamers. Gaming laptops defined as laptop with
NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 or NVIDIA GeForce RTX or AMD Radeon R9 or
AMD Radeon RX 470 & above Graphics, excluding detachable
PC's.
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