Microsoft Outlines Innovation and Opportunities on the Intelligent Edge at Computex 2019
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.
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[1] Market availability to be
confirmed
[2] 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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