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Some sharp edges, but two cool covers doubling as keyboards see slide show, video below My quick hands-on with the new 10.6-in. Surfac
stanley website e tablets at Microsoftrsquo launch on Monday gave me a little surprise: The edges on al
stanley botella l four sides are sharp.I was expecting something a little smoother or rounder, for whatever reason. The black magnesium back cover and the black bezel on the front around the screen make the Surface tablet seem more in the Android camp than iPadrsquo .[ FREE DOWNLOAD: Crafting a successful BYOD and mobile IT strategy | Can IT give users a consumer-like experience Should they ] But the weight, at less than 2 pounds, felt great. Enginee
owala canada rs showed off the materials in the tablets and emphasized durability of the case, along with the Corningrsquo Gorilla Glass screen. I guess herersquo the direction Microsoft wanted to take with Surface tablets: durable, with an emphasis on seriousness.In pictures: Surface mdash; lsquo;A PC, a tablet and newrsquo;The keyboards embedded in the two covers are, to me, the secret sauce with the new Surface tablets. One is a Touch Cover, with no mechanical keys, while the other is a Type Cover, with keys that are mechanical and provide resistence for touch typing. Both are the same size. Both covers work on both machines, the Windows RT and the Windows 8 Pro. The Type Cover has more information n the top row of keys, something that shows they can be used as shortcuts to various apps that might run already in Windows. Qyhl Microsoft s Kin Two uses older Nvidia Tegra chip
Company can t explain reprise of last month s stealth update For the second time in a month, Microsoft Corp. has had to defend Windows Update against charges that it upgraded machines without usersrsquo; permission. So
stanley cup far, it has no explanation for the newest instance of unauthorized updating.In a post published late Friday to a company blog, Nate Clinton, program manager
polene store for Microsoft Update, denied that Windowsrsquo; update mechanism was to blame for reports of settings being changed without user interaction, updates downloading and installing, and system
owala s rebooting.We have received some logs from customers and have so far been able to determine that their AU [Automatic Update] settings were not changed by any changes to the AU client itself and also not changed by any updates installed by AU, Clinton said. Claims started to trickle in shortly after the rollout last Tuesday of multiple security patches that machines running Windows Vista had updated on their own, even though users had set Automatic Update to require their approval before downloading and/or installing patches. Some users also reported that machines had rebooted, which caused data loss in applications that had been left open.The Windows enthusiast site AeroXperience was the first to notice the wildcat updates, and it collected accounts from users. I had mine set to lsquo;Check for updates but let me choose whether to download and install them,rsquo; itrsquo now on ls