Apple employee unveiled the first prototype pictures from 2005 of what would become a few years later the iPhone. Today it is the turn of Microsoft to give us his first test materials on the tablet surface, officially this time.
In a long interview with the website The Verge, Panos Panay, the father of the shelf space back on all the steps that preceded the launch of the tablet in 2012. The opportunity to see photos of the first attempts by Microsoft to make the thinnest tablet possible, able to magnetize a slim keyboard (again), but can also stand with a tripod on the back of the device.
The illustrations are amazing in more ways than one, since it shows that the first model of the cover was made using pieces of scotch and the tablet was using a piece of string. We also learn that the keyboard was at first yellow in color, but the project was abandoned visibly (for memory, touch and type cover cover is available in blue, black, pink, red and white). In contrast, additional colors and exclusive versions are under consideration.
Panos Panay, who had previously worked on PixelSense (the first version of Surface, which was at the time a table) shows that the development of the Pro version of the Windows 8 tablet began three months after the version in RT Windows ... This may partly explain the delay in the launch of space compared to the Pro edition RT.
The good news is that during those long hours of development, Microsoft team was able to reduce the thickness of the covers by from 4.5 to 3 mm. A team that has also grown over the months since 12 people, it rose to 30 and 80.
In the end, even if the software part has been criticized since its release, the tablet is an undeniable success on the material plane. It only remains to hope that the sales of the device take off more than surface RT since October 2012 appointment in a few weeks, leaving Surface Pro in Europe.
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