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Microsoft has introduced at #MicrosoftEDU the Surface Laptop and also Windows 10 S. Windows 10 S devices are aiming to education sector and schools.<\/p>\nMicrosoft has introduced at #MicrosoftEDU the Surface Laptop and also Windows 10 S. Windows 10 S devices are aiming to education sector and schools.<\/p>\n
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In it's first part of the presentation, Microsoft introduced Windows 10 S (S stand for school), an operating system running on cheap hardware and addressing the education market. These devices are competitors to Google's Chromebooks.<\/p>\n
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\n(Source: Microsoft)<\/p>\n
Windows 10 PCs for the education market will be available from several OEM for 189 US $ onwards. Windows 10 S is preinstalled for free, and the OS is free for schools for its Windows Pro PCs. The package contains also a free Microsoft Office 365 for Education and a one year Minecraft for education subscription.<\/p>\n
Windows 10 S is only capable to run apps from Windows Store \u2013 but it's possible to update such a machine Windows 10 Pro. A feature comparison and also answers to many questions may be found at this Microsoft web site<\/a>.<\/p>\n A special app enables administrators to create USB sticks with an Windows 10 S installation images. Microsoft Intune for Education will be used to administrate the devices with Windows 10 S. More articles about Windows 10 S may be found here<\/a>, and here<\/a>.<\/p>\n Microsoft also introduced the Surface Laptop, a notebook with an 13.5 inch PixelSense Display (3.4 million pixels) which is 9.9 to 14.47 mm thick.<\/p>\n The notebook weights 1,200 grams and comes with one USB 3.0 Type A connector. The specs may be found at this Microsoft page.<\/a> The variant with Intel Core i5 CPU, Intel\u00ae HD Graphics 620, 4GB RAM and 128GB SSD starts at 999 US $. Further articles may be found here<\/a> and here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Microsoft has introduced at #MicrosoftEDU the Surface Laptop and also Windows 10 S. Windows 10 S devices are aiming to education sector and schools.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[71,448,2],"tags":[810,806],"class_list":["post-2765","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-computer","category-devices","category-windows","tag-surface-laptop","tag-windows-10-s"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/borncity.com\/win\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2765","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/borncity.com\/win\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/borncity.com\/win\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/borncity.com\/win\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/borncity.com\/win\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2765"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/borncity.com\/win\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2765\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/borncity.com\/win\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2765"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/borncity.com\/win\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2765"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/borncity.com\/win\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2765"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}Surface Laptop starts at 999 US $<\/h3>\n
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\n(Source: Twitter)<\/p>\n