Microsoft preparing dual 9-inch screen foldable Surface for 2020

[HEXUS]

Meanwhile, the Microsoft Windows Terminal app preview has been released via the store.

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[Ttaskmaster]

Well, at least it folds the correct way... One more step forward.

I'm really looking forward to eventually having a small phone-sized device that opens out into a large screen!

[Peter Parker]

That marketing mock-up image is just odd.

I think it's supposed to look a bit 3D (possibly the Cliffs of Moher?). In order to look like that, it'd have to be an anamorphic image on the flat screen, designed to be viewed from only this angle. Just feels wrong, a bit "uncanny valley".

Otherwise, cool tech if the folding ever works reliably.

[Ttaskmaster]

I think it's supposed to look a bit 3D (possibly the Cliffs of Moher?). In order to look like that, it'd have to be an anamorphic image on the flat screen, designed to be viewed from only this angle. Just feels wrong, a bit "uncanny valley".

Having just Googled the Cliffs of Moher, several images look just like that. I think it's merely the placement and angles of the device frame that make it look like it's 3D, rather than anything MS have done intentionally.

[deepblue08]

That device looks thiccc

[Aemelius]

Hmmm... this all sounds very 2009.

Didn't they have the Microsoft Courier in development back then... cancelled by that genius Steve Ballmer.

It's only taken a decade to revisit the idea...

[Ttaskmaster]

That device looks thiccc

Ohhh, ith that what the cool kidth are thaying theethe dayth?

"Get up, come on get down with the thickneth
You mother get up come on get down with the thickneth
You fluffer get up come on get down with the thickneth
Madneth ith the gift, that hath been given to me"

There mutht be a meme with Violet Elithabeth Bott and Dithturbed thomewhere...