The Surface Hub, Microsoft’s wall computer has been delayed, and it will now start to ship on January the 1st 2016. The announcement comes right after the company’s July statement, when they noted that a Fall release date isn’t plausible.
The software-maker promised that they will update its status when August arrives.
Microsoft’s official note, regarding their Surface Hub wall computer can be read just down below.
A little bit lackluster, isn’t it?
Mary Jo Foley, a contributor to ZDNet was the first to observe this rather annoying delay, and she brings to our attention that Microsoft started taking pre-orders for their Surface Hub on July the 1st, and that the company’s initial plan was for a September 1st ship date.
The big M released a statement in July which noted that they have received strong demand for the Surface Hub, and the reason for this multi-month postponement is that they want to polish their process of manufacturing in order to produce them on a more larger scale.
Microsoft built, from top to bottom, a factory in Oregon especially to create the Surface Hub.
This delay isn’t worrying, nor has it caught us off-guard. I wouldn’t even go to say that this entails system, or production troubles. It’s just Microsoft admitting they want to make more money, because there is a demand for their product.
Microsoft isn’t selling flag-ship consumer-oriented smartphones, where timing is of the essence when considering a release date. They are trying to breakthrough a niche, which doesn’t really have a standard of quality cemented into the user’s mind, nor promoted by an industry leader.
Microsoft’s new system, the Surface Hub is a 80-inch, or 55-inch computer that you can display on your wall. It has a built-in touch input, specially made cameras that will track your movement, and other features oriented for businesses – video conferences are stable, and easily initiated.
It will come pre-assembled, and the design team at Microsoft aims it at businesses first, consumers second.
It can also run all of the apps on the Windows Store.
The Surface Hub is capable of running Windows 10 apps, and it will be more practical than their previous iterations. It will also run a sort-of custom version of the newly released Windows 10.
Depending on the size of the Surface Hub that you choose, you’ll need to pay-up $6,999 or $19,999.
As I said before, this delay isn’t worrying, but if January comes, and Microsoft delays their system once-again, then we might start to ask ourselves some questions.
