#MICROSOFT SURFACE DUO 2 VERIZON SOFTWARE#
#MICROSOFT SURFACE DUO 2 VERIZON WINDOWS#

#MICROSOFT SURFACE DUO 2 VERIZON SOFTWARE#

And its Office productivity software is so ingrained in our culture that most of my friends don't know the name of Google's free competing apps - they're just 'the Google version of Excel' or 'Google's PowerPoint.' (They're called Google Sheets and Slides, but even I had to look that up to be sure.)

#MICROSOFT SURFACE DUO 2 VERIZON WINDOWS#

Its Windows software powers more than 77% of the computers on the planet. So while it may not be a buzzy, hip company, it's valued at $1.54 trillion, making it one of the top five companies in the world along with Amazon, Apple and Google parent Alphabet. 'You want to be cool by doing that empowerment. 'You join here not to be cool, but to make others cool,' he told me in 2018. The 45-year-old company is treated like the elder statesman of tech, which it is, and Nadella himself proudly admits his company isn't cool. It's easy to dismiss Microsoft - and many people do. Seven years ago, Microsoft bought Nokia and started selling its own phones. The AT&T version will be locked to that network. The Surface Duo will work on AT&T, T-Mobile and Verizon Wireless networks. 28, but said it ran into administrative issues. Microsoft had initially planed to launch the device on Aug. 10, but is available from Microsoft, AT&T and Best Buy for preorder starting Wednesday. 'Anyone who chooses a Duo over a more conventional phone will need to be all in on Microsoft's vision of productivity as the device's heart and soul,' wrote Fast Company's Harry McCracken. Meanwhile, tech watchers debate whether the Surface Duo's shortcomings are justified for what Microsoft built as essentially a work and productivity machine. 'It doesn't feel like two phones glued together, either,' Stein said. CNET reviewer Scott Stein, who got to play with a see-through prototype that didn't have working screens, says the Surface Duo feels comfortable to hold, like a book. Whether you'll believe him probably has a bit to do with what you think of Microsoft. 'When we designed it, the intent was, 'How do you make something so thin, beautiful, light and super elegant that when people pick it up they can feel that emotion in the product,'' Panay said. When closed, the two screens stack on one another, making the Surface Duo's thickness 9.9 millimeters - or less than half an inch. Microsoft said it opted to skip 5G as part of a trade-off to save battery life and allow the device to be only 4.8 millimeters thick when open (less than the iPad Pro's 5.9 millimeters). Also notable is that the Surface Duo - unlike the Samsung's Galaxy Z Fold 2 - doesn't support next-generation 5G wireless technology. Instead, it runs on a modified version of Google's Android, the software used by pretty much every smartphone or tablet that doesn't come from Apple. The other thing that makes the Surface Duo unusual is that it's not powered by Microsoft's Windows software for PCs, or its mobile variant that was discontinued in 2017.

Microsoft says research shows our brains work differently when we're using two screens.

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