Tech Advisor - UK (2020-05)

INSIDE: WILL VR BREAK OUT IN 2020? MAY 2020 THE 2-IN- YOU’VE BEEN WAITING FOR NVIDIA’S GAMING SERVICE BLOWS GOOGLE STADIA OUT OF ...

2 TECH ADVISOR • MAY 2020 CONTENTS 4 MicrosoftcombinesWindowsandSurface 8 Microsoft’s Surface salesnear $2 billion 12 NEWS 12 Mi ...

MAY 2020 • TECH ADVISOR 3 72 59 Nvidia’s play-anywhere GeForceNowgamingserviceis finallyhere 59 Activision Blizzard pullsits gam ...

4 TECH ADVISOR • MAY 2020 NEWS M icrosoft is combining its Windows client and Surface teams into a dedicated unit led by product ...

MAY 2020 • TECH ADVISOR 5 According to ZDNet’s Mary Jo Foley, the combination will be named ‘Windows + Devices’, and will be led ...

6 TECH ADVISOR • MAY 2020 NEWS ascompany executives noted execution problems within the consumer Surface business. Obviously, th ...

MAY 2020 • TECH ADVISOR 7 tougher for everyone to compete. Microsoft’s recent emphasisonthecloud– andin effect,awayfromthe PC– l ...

8 TECH ADVISOR • MAY 2020 NEWS C loud, cloud, cloud, followed by Office, gaming, Surface and then Windows: by now, Microsoft has ...

MAY 2020 • TECH ADVISOR 9 dollar business. Interestingly, chief financial officer Amy Hood implied that sales could have been hi ...

10 TECH ADVISOR • MAY 2020 NEWS fairlysubstantiallyduringthefirstquarter,Microsoft said,dueto a variety of factors. The first, o ...

MAY 2020 • TECH ADVISOR 11 AMD, the supplier responsible for the chips powering the Xbox One as well as the upcoming Microsoft X ...

12 TECH ADVISOR • MAY 2020 REVIEW Microsoft Surface Pro 7 M icrosoft’sSurfacePro7,thelatest in the company’sexcellentSurfacePros ...

MAY 2020 • TECH ADVISOR 13 Granted,it’sa loteasiertobethebestgamein townwhen rival Windows tablets are few and far between. At t ...

14 TECH ADVISOR • MAY 2020 REVIEW Hardware and specs The Surface Pro 7 is a full-fledged PC made superportable. You won’t get di ...

MAY 2020 • TECH ADVISOR 15 hoped – that’s left to the Surface Pro X, though that tablet ships with its own set of issues. Our Su ...

16 TECH ADVISOR • MAY 2020 REVIEW actual tablet, and holding it by its edges. Still, the large, chunky bezels give it a rather d ...

MAY 2020 • TECH ADVISOR 17 I prefer the older Type Covers, as there’s a happy medium between the need to depress the keys and th ...

18 TECH ADVISOR • MAY 2020 REVIEW includePoppyRedandIceBlue.Allthreearecoated inthesoft,yetdurableAlcantarafabric,whichseems abi ...

MAY 2020 • TECH ADVISOR 19 Microsoft removed the mini-DisplayPort connector and replaced it with a USB-C port. The Surface Conne ...

20 TECH ADVISOR • MAY 2020 REVIEW allowing you to use an old Surface charger with the new model. The same goes for the Surface D ...