News - Microsoft’s new Surface 2 advert concentrates on “real work”

[HEXUS]

Having pre-installed Microsoft Office and the option of a real keyboard helps.

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[Saracen]

Just made the mistake of watching the advert. Will someone please pass the puke-bag?

[crossy]

Naughty Microsoft. Keyboard is definitely "available" but it's also a darned expensive extra. And personally I still prefer Google Search to Bing - the latter is too much like hard work.

And it's RT - how much, other than Office, can you run on that these days? (not poking fun, asking a question).

[Biscuit]

Naughty Microsoft. Keyboard is definitely "available" but it's also a darned expensive extra. And personally I still prefer Google Search to Bing - the latter is too much like hard work.

Drives me round the frigging bend that the new Microsoft Bing world is so heavily integrated into the OS. Same on windows mobile, i have a hardware search button that takes me to bing, no matter where i am and what im doing. Its not a search button, its a hardware bing button... that i never ever deliberately use.
I dont care how good they think bing is, i use Google, im used to Google and i know how to get what i want from Google.

[Cog]

Same on windows mobile, i have a hardware search button that takes me to bing, no matter where i am and what im doing. Its not a search button, its a hardware bing button... that i never ever deliberately use.
I dont care how good they think bing is, i use Google, im used to Google and i know how to get what i want from Google.

Sounds like the Bing button is going to become the new windows button.

[crossy]

Sounds like the Bing button is going to become the new windows button.

If you're talking about the Windows button on my keyboard then I like it - it's useful!

No sign of any way to deBing that hardware search button, but you can change the default search engine in WP8's browser.

Although I suppose there's folks who'd like to use Bing as the default search engine on their Android phones. Think this is possible, but not sure how easy it would be. Not that I'm wanting to do that.

[kingpotnoodle]

Same on windows mobile, i have a hardware search button that takes me to bing, no matter where i am and what im doing. Its not a search button, its a hardware bing button... that i never ever deliberately use.
I dont care how good they think bing is, i use Google, im used to Google and i know how to get what i want from Google.

Sounds like the Bing button is going to become the new windows button.

Just for hilarity it needs to make a microwave style "bing" noise when pressed. That you cannot disable.

[Noxvayl]

Just made the mistake of watching the advert. Will someone please pass the puke-bag?

I didn't plan on watching any of the linked video's but I definitely won't now.

Having said that it seems like the news article is essentially the advert in written form.