Microsoft's Surface Hub 2 to feature upgradable processor cartridges
You'll have to pay more to unlock all Surface Hub 2 features
By Shawn Knight,
Facepalm: Microsoft promised in May that its next Surface Hub would be
rotatable and could be scaled by tiling multiple devices together.
That's still true, but you'll now have to pay extra to unlock those
features (and wait at least another year for them).
Set to arrive starting next year, the massive screens aim to further the
team-based collaborative culture taking root in workplaces around the
globe.
At its Ignite conference on Monday, the Redmond-based tech giant
revealed that the second-gen Surface Hub will actually arrive as a
multi-tiered platform.
The Surface Hub 2S is scheduled to land in the second quarter of 2019
and will offer a familiar Surface Hub experience in a lighter, thinner
and more vibrant design compared to the original. In 2020, Microsoft
will release updates that allow customers to update to what’s called
Surface Hub 2X. This update, enabled via removable processor cartridges
that plug into the back of the Surface Hub 2, adds the ability to rotate
displays and tile them together to create larger workspaces.
We’ve seen upgrades like this in the past – namely Samsung’s Smart
Evolution kit for televisions – that use modular hardware to boost
performance and add additional functionality over time. It’s a novel
concept, in theory, but as Samsung proved, it didn't make much sense for
televisions. That’s not to say Microsoft won’t find success with it on a
smaller scale but more of an observation about modular hardware and
add-ons in general.
Microsoft said it will share more news on Surface Hub 2 in the coming months.
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