“If you tuned in to CNN’s live election coverage Tuesday evening, you may have noticed all the commentators using Surface Pro 3 tablets given to them by Microsoft — well, at least some of them,” Taylor Soper reports for GeekWire.
“Thanks to a partnership with CNN, Microsoft supplied the cable station with a handful of its tablets for the TV people to use,” Soper reports. “But it seems some were just too loyal to their iPads.”
“In September, Microsoft had to deal with sports commentators who kept referring to the Surface — which is being used on the sidelines by NFL coaches and players this season as part of Microsoft’s $400 million contract with the league — as ‘iPad-like tools,'” Soper reports. “Now it appears Microsoft needs to do some coaching with the political talking-heads.”
CNN commentators using Microsoft @surface tablets as iPad stand. Facepalm. pic.twitter.com/BPxWTf2zhI
— Adam (@adamUCF) November 5, 2014
Even the good people at CNN who have Microsoft surface tablets in their face hide iPad … – http://t.co/Sz6CpzLrEg pic.twitter.com/7Bam8uyI2G
— Melbourneer (@_Melbourneer_) November 5, 2014
Full article here.
MacDailyNews Take: Microsoft Surface. The joke that never gets old.
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It’s a Surface. As in, a place to set stuff.
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CiaNN deserves the Surface.
In 2016, the Clinton News Network will be making a return appearance.
That really is pretty funny! But not surprising. And has anyone noticed how man MacBook Airs and Pros are showing up on TV news desks lately? I think the windoze folks are becoming embarrased to be sitting there surrounded by beaming Apple logos 🙂
I noticed all those Surface units on the desk last night, but I missed the hidden iPads. Hilarious.
Microsoft has created a new definition for the term “partnership.”
MicroSoft is reduced to paying people to show their Surface on TV, but the TV guys obviously “use what works”.
What a novel method of advertising Apple’s superiority!
There were people asking in the Apple Store for those fancy iPad stands they saw being used on the CNN election coverage.
/s
Sales clerk points, “you can find them across the hall.”
Customer replies, “Oh! I thought that store was abandoned!”
I wonder if it would be feasible to gut a worthless fire sale Surefarce and use it as an iPad case with integral kickstand and keyboard?
Knew those kick stands would have some use eventually as wind breaks and sun screens.
Fox News. Karl Rove and everyone else openly use Apple iPads and Macs on air.
Transparency vs. obfuscation. Telling.
Fox News is fair and balanced and they don’t even need a kickstand to be balanced.
Please stop. this running joke is going to make me wet my trousers! 😆 😂😅😆
Karl Rove! 😛😹🙆😸😈
Well perhaps you ought to get mommy to change your trousers for you and get a diaper on whilst your at it.
But laughing my ass off is just too much fun! We need to keep the Neo-Con-Job going if only so we can enjoy taunting the US village idiots. ☺🃏
“US village idiots”… Isn’t that another way of saying Obama/Biden!
George W Bush’s legacy: The global village idiot
Was George W Bush really as dumb as he looked?
😆 😆 😆
Can’t believe there are still Obama supporters after the six years of absolute trash that Obama has taken us through.
Don’t look at me! What a profound disappointment Obama’s administration has been, AND will be…
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Did the voices in your head REALLY tell you that?
Seriously, I think this is supposed to be a cross-site-scripting SPAM attack. FAIL. Not gonna work. Not gonna happen.
Actually it was an embedded image but there is no way to edit on this site.
What, and Obama is smart? Deceit is not smart and Bush was plain spoken, no deceit.
Bush bashing is not smart either. Please continue.
LOL! I love the 1 dimensional thinking: ‘If’n yer not fur us, yer ag’in us!’
I’m not here to change intransigent minds. I’m here to point out what ELSE is going on in the world so you can’t say you weren’t warned. It’s a 3D world out here, in case you hadn’t noticed.
Talk about a kickstand. I think some of those reporters would like to use that kickstand to kick the Surface Pro into a corner somewhere.
Funny how you see iPads in protective cases that have for what is in effect a kickstand supporting it!
Tech no politics.
What a great day for progressive NeoCons!!!
Tea party, conservatives, moderates and anyone not a left extremist can share in the red tide of the USA finally coming to grips with common sense and belief in defending the constitution.
A sea of red to wash away the worst Senate in history under the worst president in history.
I love the war on women, liberal women that is. What great historic gains capable Republican women made yesterday. Add in black conservatives as well.
No one in the elitist Dem media saw it coming. So much for smarts.
Hoorah!
“Thanks to a partnership with CNN, Microsoft supplied
…Or cursed…. IT’S OFFICIAL! So use the damned Surface tablets we PAID you to use! Or we’ll send The Marketing Police to come and get you.
Headline:
Terrorist CNN commentators fined $10,000 each for using UNofficial computer tablets!
Surface can do more MDN 🙂
Why isn’t this story on the front page of the NYT? It’s hilarious
Couldn’t Microsoft make an iPad stand that costs less?
MS could have made Surface out of cardboard.
Heck, that’s what it is!
It’s called ‘vapour mag’ and Ballmer invented it using papier-mâché and other forms of undisclosed high techery you’d expect from Redmond campus.
“But it seems some were just too loyal to their iPads.”
They weren’t too loyal, they just had to get a job done, so they used iPads.
So, they were using the Surface Tablets as kickstands for their iPads?
Ohhh that’s is what they are use for at the NFL!
I got it now.
So the Nokia phones must be a mouse pad is it?
Tweeted the Picture to Paul Thurott. Doubt he will respond, but I’m sure he has some explanation.
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It kinda makes me feel that if George Orwell wrote a comedy it would be something like this. Of course it’s very Oz “pay no attention to the man behind the curtain” like, and certainly just as amusing.
Happy 2nd birthday, Windows 8 and Surface: Anatomy of a disaster
Heart of Windows 8 lives on in Windows 10
…Surface RT was a disaster, and the following year Microsoft wrote off $900m from the value of its Surface RT inventory. . . .
The boldness of the Windows 8 experiment also looks in hindsight like stubbornness. The initial release made no effort to draw existing Windows users in; it was almost the opposite, thrusting them into the “modern” environment with few clues about how to get out of it. For some who knew and liked Windows, it could be a humiliating experience. . . .
Was Windows 8 a major disaster for Microsoft? Yes. . . .