{"id":308563,"date":"2019-06-04T07:48:43","date_gmt":"2019-06-04T05:48:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/?p=308563"},"modified":"2019-06-04T07:49:04","modified_gmt":"2019-06-04T05:49:04","slug":"microsoft-teases-dual-screen-surface-tablet","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/hardware\/308563-microsoft-teases-dual-screen-surface-tablet.html","title":{"rendered":"Microsoft teases dual-screen Surface tablet"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Microsoft has begun showing its upcoming dual-screen Surface device to employees within the company, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theverge.com\/2019\/6\/3\/18648919\/microsoft-surface-dual-screen-centaurus-device-teaser\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><strong>The Verge<\/strong><\/a> reports.<\/p>\n<p>The company reportedly allowed employees to try out a prototype version of the laptop-tablet hybrid and played a teaser video for the new hardware.<\/p>\n<p>Windows Central <a href=\"https:\/\/www.windowscentral.com\/centaurus\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><strong>reported<\/strong><\/a> last year that Microsoft had code-named its dual-screen Surface PC &#8220;Centaurus&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>Centaurus will have a similar design to Microsoft&#8217;s cancelled Courier project, offering two side-by-side displays which fold open like a book.<\/p>\n<p>The hardware is expected to run a lightweight version of the core Windows 10 operating system built specifically for dual-screen devices and Chromebook competitors.<\/p>\n<p>The report said that along with showing off the Centaurus prototype to employees, Microsoft also teased its new xCloud gaming service and a prototype version of Microsoft Teams.<\/p>\n<h3 class=\"my-4\">Now read: <a href=\"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/software\/308555-microsoft-no-longer-open-sources-public-enemy-no-1.html\" rel=\"bookmark\">Microsoft no longer open-source\u2019s public enemy No. 1<\/a><\/h3>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Microsoft has begun showing its upcoming dual-screen Surface device to employees within the company.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":341028,"featured_media":141044,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[59339,59337,123,12641],"class_list":["post-308563","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-hardware","tag-centaurus","tag-dual-display","tag-microsoft","tag-surface"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/308563"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/341028"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=308563"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/308563\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/141044"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=308563"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=308563"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=308563"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}