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well good afternoon and welcome I certainly want to thank everybody for joining us for today's event the past several years had seen great change in the industry and great innovations coming from Microsoft we've helped usher in a new era of cloud computing we've embraced mobility were redefining communications and attempting to transform entertainment in all that we have done Windows is the heart and soul of Microsoft from Windows PCs to Windows servers to Windows phones and Windows Azure Windows has proven to be the most flexible general-purpose software ever created spurring on an ecosystem of unrivaled success when Microsoft was founded our vision was bold and broad a computer on every desk and in every home and while certainly we are optimists to the core Windows has exceeded even our most optimistic predictions it now powers well over 1 billion pcs from desktops to laptops to ATMs to NASA workstations and more in homes in businesses in schools and in government's literally around the world with Windows 8 we've reimagined the windows product we reimagine windows from the chipset to the user experience to power a new generation of PCs that enable new capabilities and new scenarios we approached the windows 8 product design in a forward-looking way we designed Windows 8 for the world we know in which most PC our mobile and people want access to information and the ability to create content from anywhere anytime people want to do all of that without compromising the productivity that pcs are uniquely known for from personal productivity applications to technical applications business software and literally millions of other applications that are written for Windows that work perfectly on Windows 8 we're incredibly gratified by the enthusiastic response to Windows 8 from our partners our OEM partners thousands of developers and literally millions of people consumers who've downloaded our previews excitement is high with the new x86 and arm SOC support the new Metro user interface and the new store all getting very broad interest today we want to add another piece another bit of excitement and another piece to that Windows 8 story at our foundation Bill Gates and Paul Allen made a bet a bet on software at the same time it was always clear that our unique view of what software could do would require us to push Hardware sometimes in ways that even the makers of the hardware themselves had yet to envision that's the nature of the dynamic between hardware and software pushing each other and pulling each other forward in fact our number-one revenue product actually the year I joined Microsoft 1980 was a hardware product something known as the soft card let's just take a little bit of a look back at the roll of hardware at my per soft micro so making harder for over 30 years we have over 3,200 hardware patents that's one every three days over our 30 years of history here at Hardware think about a mouse that was the first new type of input that you would interact with with a piece of software it was so revolutionary for its time being able to work with the GUI in Word was why the mouse was embedded piece of hardware that was so unique and so hard to find marks of like oh we can't get this that we're gonna have to do it ourselves number one selling keyboard just so much built into it they just are so instrumental to how you work with the computer Xbox made a huge dive into the gaming market the same thing we did 30 years ago about making software come to life we're doing that today with the new products hit our stride for sure when it comes to innovation it is still about wow developing products that are going to touch the customer in a meaningful way I think the shapes are really cool that's that's the first ratting into them it's a constant evolution that's what makes this place special that is what drives us every day that's why we come in to work and we work so hard every day I'm personally very proud of Connect we are responsible for an awesome experience but when we cool the gaming device could do that we control it on we design it to all be verified all the manufacturing all ourselves I think it's about the desire to change the world but we can do something that not many others can do and what I see coming out of the hardware group today just blows my mind as excited as I am about seeing people use our devices right now I'm even more excited about the stuff we're developing for the future we believe that any intersection between human and machine can be made better when all aspects of the experience hardware and software are considered and working together just let's take the mouse as an example to be successful Windows one oh really needed a mouse so we built one early reviews of mice were not very positive as people struggle to understand the real value in fact actually it was so new the Canadian customs quarantined the Microsoft Mouse at the border for four weeks thinking that it was alive our most successful hardware product has been the Xbox and with Kinect we have created a whole new user experience and now developers are pushing Kinect doing more exciting and even cooler things for both the game console and for Windows PCs this combination of hardware software and peripherals in the Xbox case work together to deliver an absolutely amazing experience we see that con that sort of combination working also today in our PC ecosystem we believe in the strength of that ecosystem of software and hardware companies that work together to deliver selection and choice that makes your Windows experience uniquely your own those partnerships are essential to the re-imagination of Windows we've worked with the component companies Intel AMD Nvidia Qualcomm and Texas Instruments of course the ultimate landing point of this PC experience is through our partnerships with OEMs HP Dell Asus Acer Samsung Sony Lenovo Toshiba and many many more they will deliver more pcs to market in the year 2013 than in any previous year IDC estimates that number at over 375 million Windows PCs that will ensure that software developers and content creators have a larger number of new systems to target with their Windows 8 applications than any other non phone platform however with Windows 8 we did not want to leave any seam uncovered much like Windows 1.0 needed the mouse to complete the experience we wanted to give Windows 8 its own companion hardware innovation what is this innovation it's something new it's something different it's a whole new family of computing devices from Microsoft this is the new Microsoft Surface it embodies the notion of hardware and software really pushing each other people do want to create and consume they want to work and they want to play they want to be on their couch they want to be at their desk and they want to be on the go surface fulfills that dream it is a tool to surface your passions to surface your ideas to surface your creativity and to surface your enjoyment I really want you to take the time today to get to know Microsoft Surface so let's now learn more from Steven Sinofsky and the Microsoft Surface team just as we've reimagined windows we also have a vision for reimagining the tablet we see a tablet that is designed the way that Windows has been designed we see a tablet that represents a unique vision for the seamless expression of entertainment and creativity a tablet that works and plays the way that you want to a tablet that's a great PC a PC that's a great tablet a new type of computing surface surface is a stage for Windows surface is designed for the software experience to take it to have it take center stage surface is super thin at 9.3 millimeters it's just thin enough for this full-size USB port for peripherals or just charging your phone while you're at the hotel the edges are beveled away at 22 degrees so the PC itself fades into the background it feels natural in your hands surface is the first PC with a full magnesium case through a unique process the liquid metal is formed into an ultra rigid yet ultra light frame it is incredibly and strong yet it's Airy at under 1.5 pounds just 676 grams and it's finally balanced you know we didn't stop there the case is one-of-a-kind it's a made from a physical vapor deposition process it results in a permanent scratch and wear resistance foot surface this vapor mag case is a first of a kind and it accentuates the unique feel of surface surfaces of course great for entertainment it has access to all of the Windows apps for music for video for Xbox and gaming we can see here I'm running Internet Explorer I can browse smoothly you see great pages using the using clear type and have a great experience just with all the with with browsing its 10.6 inch optically bonded widescreen display is custom design but for surface and of course people play games I can go and play any of the interesting games that are on in the Windows Store and I can use surface for using all the sensors that are within windows as well surface works for all of those games movies entertainment look great as well oops hang on this one there excuse me just a second surface works great for entertainment as well in fact I'm going to show here for the first time a very exciting new application this is the Netflix application designed specifically for Windows 8 now with the wide screen you get 30% more viewing area and no banding or letterboxing like you traditionally should see I'm happy to show this new Netflix application give you an early look how it's designed specifically for Windows 8 with semantic zoom and Netflix we'll have this ready at the Windows 8 launch I can go here and start a movie and see it streams straight to my surface PC just like you would expect now to stream so well surface needs great Wi-Fi surface is the first tablet to incorporate dual 2x2 MIMO antennas that means it provides the very best Wi-Fi reception of any tablet today surface is incredibly great for windows and for entertainment PC and you know we're just getting started today when you have your tablet you want to be entertained you have to hold it you're always sitting in an awkward position or perhaps you have to choose from a seemingly endless variety of add-on stands and cases that solve a relatively simple problem but by adding weight adding thickness what if I just want to watch movie or listen to music and do something else we think that this should be an integral part of the design we think that a stand should be integral so we've built a stand into the device this stand is made of the same vapor mag as the rest of the case and it's completely integrated into the device the hinge design is like that of the finest luxury car and when not in use it just fades away no extra weight no extra thickness no separate add-on its integrated just like the software and the hardware integrated into surface and then once you have this kickstand you can sit back and enjoy a truly hands-free experience you know you could go and just put the put the surface on a table lay back and watch a movie and that's really what entertainment should be about with the surface but you know surfaces is designed to be mobile we design surface to be rugged and move around but with vapor mag and Corning Gorilla Glass 2.0 you do not need to worry at all but we know many people prefer to have some sort of cover a cover that helps to just act like an easy on/off switch at least so surface has a cover we designed the cover to be an integral element of the PC we built a magnetic connector into the device to hold it very securely so let me attach the cover click you heard that it's solid click close the cover it's integrated into the device it's made from a fine northwest polar tech feels great in your hand like a book it just fits there and when we looked at the whole surface on the cover we challenged ourselves to do more this cover is just three millimeters combined with surface there over just there just over 12 millimeters that's less than half an inch and we said why not do something with this surface why shouldn't we just take the surface and make it a full multi-touch keyboard this touch cover is not just a full multi-touch keyboard but it's a modern trackpad with left and right buttons it even has the keys for the Windows 8 Metro style UI this keyboard combined with the kickstand form the hallmark of just hands-on creativity on average typing is twice as efficient as typing on glass and it's certainly more comfortable now of course the innovative screen on-screen keyboard in Windows is still there and you can mix and match the choice is really going to be yours just put them on the table and you've got a great stand let me go over here and show you a different surface this surface is connected to external HDMI that's built into the device I'm going to go here and now I've got sir I've got the touch cover connected now with front and rear facing cameras on this device I can record video so I'm going to start the camera application so now I can go here and and I can tilt this around and angle it so I could see it this camera is angled at 22 degrees by angling it 22 degrees everybody at the table their head is perfectly framed into the picture or when I'm sitting at the seat I can do a Skype call and I'm perfectly framed but this device also has windows on it or office on it so I go into the desktop and I see here's word running now what's really neat is I could also have using the multitasking capabilities I could dock the the camera app there and now I can record a video or an interview and take notes I could record myself and read from my notes and that integration is really cool in fact I can even use the USB port and plug in an external speaker and microphone even though it has dual array mics and dual speakers built in and I can get super high quality recording and so that's a quick look at at at surface now there's so much more to show you today now imagine if you will that we took all of those capabilities of surface and we built them so that you could you could use all the applications that you're familiar with you could use Photoshop or you could use other applications those applications would be Bill using the latest of the intel core processor now that in addition to the surface that we're releasing today for Windows RT we also have a surface that's designed with these latest Intel processors so in addition to working on the NVIDIA ARM processor we're also working with on a surface for Windows 8 Professional I'd like to introduce Mike and jeweller now who's going to come up on stage and show us a little bit of the next generation of the next iteration of surface thank you very much Steven I am proud to introduce you to another member of the surface family this is surface for Windows 8 pro the windows ecosystem has always been about choice and for the millions of professional desktop users out there people who use their PC every day to design and to create things this is a great choice for you it shares the same design principles that Steven was talking about it's a stage for Windows it shows the same pride and craftsmanship it's less than two pounds and less than 14 millimeters it's a full PC now this also has a clear type display Stevens PC had a clear type HD this is a clear type Full HD display and what that means is three things it's a combination of a very specific pixel geometry rendering and an optical bonding process that together create the effect that your eye can't distinguish between the individual pixels and normal viewing distances in this case 17 inches less than arm's length this clear type display also reduces Z height and conserves battery power it has some of the other high performance features you saw too it's got that 2x2 antenna technology this is a first-in tablets it has dual high-performance antennas and receivers so that you get the best Wi-Fi performance possible no matter how you hold it it also has a chassis that's built out of that same durable and elegant vapor mag that enables features like the 0.7 millimeter thin kickstand less than a millimeter it's got the same compatible accessories spine that Steven had so if you take a touch cover like he had it just clicks in it clicks in the same it has that same designed and feeling because the entire surface family of products was designed together even close like this this is still less than 17 millimeters this PC has specs that rival those of the finest ultrabooks that have ever been announced and it delivers the power and the flexibility that you would expect of a high-end PC this PC is powered by Intel's third generation Core i5 processor the Ivy Bridge processor this is their 22 nanometer process that results in a CPU that's faster a GPU that has double the 3d graphics throughput all while using less power than today's core i5s but with that power comes a unique design challenge how do you design a PC that you might be holding in any different way or have a cover in the front in the back to integrate active cooling there's no obvious place to put a vent so here's our solution this is called perimeter venting you see this groove that goes all the way around the outside of the case there's a good shot of it up on the screen this allows air to be uniformly distributed across the entire PC when necessary in a way that you never block it with your hands in fact you never even feel it which makes the PC really comfortable to hold which is really helpful when doing things like flipping back your keyboard and taking notes with digital ink surface for Windows 8 Pro supports digital inking windows apps of all kinds can support inking so here what I've done is I can go back to the desktop and show you what I launched I launched the Windows reader and this is a PDF file of one of Stephens blog posts so you can see I can pan and zoom what I can really do here is I can come and I could do ink I'm going to come and say this is great now what you'll notice when I ink and I zoom in as i zoom in that ink stays smooth that's because it's being sampled at 600dpi that's sub-pixel accuracy for aang what that does is it keeps your handwriting very smooth and hopefully yours is a little better than mine one of the neat things about this too is as I'm inking from here I can see the tip of the pen almost feels like it's writing exactly on the screen since the screen is optically bonded we've eliminated the layers in between the thin cover gloss and the screen so it feels like you're inking right on the page the distance between the stylus and where I see the ink is only 0.7 millimeters that's the thinnest and closest distance of any tablet PC any inking tablet ever now one of the other things that's going on here is as I'm moving my hand you see the page is not moving underneath my hand that's because Windows has palm block technology this surface has two digitizers it has one for touch and a separate one for digital ink and what happens is is when I bring the pen close to the screen Windows sees the proximity of the pen and stops taking touch input so my hand does it mess up what I'm writing and when I'm done with the pen you can see the little magnetic charging connector there it just clicks in so that's one of the cool things on surface for Windows 8 pro and inking I got one thanks the apps that I'm showing you later look really great in the native resolution of the screen the 1080 resolution but if you want to unlock the highest possible resolutions that ID bridge supports even higher resolutions that are possible on via HDMI out we have DisplayPort so now with DisplayPort I can take this PC I can dock it and I basically have a full professional workstation with the power of a desktop PC I have one here that's plugged in and synced up to the show monitor and this kind of a PC is powerful enough to run big applications applications like Photoshop Autodesk SolidWorks enterprise applications that require a TPM chip in this case I'm going to copy some high-res photos onto the PC and edit them in Adobe's Lightroom so I'm copying on to the desktop and what you'll see here this is a five second copy that's a whole gigabyte that's a whole gigabyte of pictures that just copied in five seconds service has support for really fast USB 3.0 and the new USB SuperSpeed drives a gigabyte file copy in five seconds is five times faster than USB 2 Oh which which makes sense with this PC because you'll be using it to do big jobs whether you're editing big photos like this or you're dealing with big video files or you're doing you know in Stevens case a big job might be typing a super long blog post that you may have read service is up for the task now let's say you are in fact doing one of those big typing jobs you've seen already Steven talked a little bit about touch cover and the improvements it makes for typing let's say you're a really fast touch typist or maybe you just prefer the feel of tactile keys well we've got another surface choice for you this is surface type cover it shares the same full pitch layout as touch cover but what we've done is we've taken a key switch that has a one and a half millimeter travel and we've built it into the thinnest possible package so you can touch type on I can touch type on this as fast as I can touch type on any keyboard fully compatible with Windows you see the shortcut keys here it has a full modern trackpad with clicking buttons and this completes the surface family of products I'd like to pull all the surface family together all at one point panos would you join us with the colors of touch cover surface for Windows RT surface for Windows 8 pro and a handful of the touch cover colors that we're going to have at launch that's the complete surface family thanks Steven now that's how we feel too and Panos especially Panos Panay is the leader of the team that created surface and has some great stories and some more detail about the product and how it came to be it's all yours thank you super cool super cool thank you thank you for having me I am unbelievably humbled right now and and flattered to be up here and but truthfully I'm rep I'm recognizing an entire team that's back in Redmond right now waiting to see your blog posts to see what you have to say we have a team full of designers development engineers manufacturing engineers hardware testers but all working on these products right now as we speak before I get into what I'm going to talk about today I'm just going to show you a little bit more about the design show you a little bit more about the culture of how these products were built because I think it might be interesting for you to hear that I really want to share with you more of our team so just watch this video really quick and I'll be right back it's an incredible moment when an idea that we had after so many months working really hard turns into a product we brought some of the best people at Microsoft together to make this awesome device one of the things that really drives us isn't that or what a great idea it's what a great idea and we can build a collaboration between the disciplines was this outstanding we had a full-blown team of researchers engineers user researchers industrial designers interaction designers that all work together we couldn't ask for a better team what we have right now super important to not only care about the big idea but also to care about the smallest details it takes iteration to build the best device possible each time we made one of those revisions we got progressively better and better took months and months and months of prototyping we found it pretty exciting complex the technology was amazing you start to realize that what we're making here is really special the first reactions will be wow you put the entire system together for the first time I think that was a loud moment when you pick this unit up you viscerally understand that is high quality a PC that is everything you would want in a tablet device for consuming content the next moment you can be crafting an email or writing a term paper when you're able to connect you know some sort of user experience to bits all the way down to atoms that's where you start really seeing a new experiences evolve I think you find that some that's a pretty powerful product you're very proud of it you're going to get to meet a lot of the people you just saw in the middie Oh in just a few minutes they're actually backstage right now preparing to show you more details of the product and give you a few minutes to put your hands on it talk a little bit about the design let me start by doing that to just give you a quick preview of oh you might see backstage in just a few minutes you heard Stephan and Mike both say it this was built as a stage for Windows 8 that was part of our core vision for the product it was very important for us that we had the hardware fade to the background for this product it was important so the Windows software could rise to the surface it gives you the best experience possible when the hardware fades away and what comes to the surface is that entertainment piece you want when you're using the device note the chamber and ankles on chamber chamber angles on the side of this product these are chamfer 222 degrees that's two things one it's a physical manifestation of the actual stage itself you can see as it falls away just as we intended for the hardware to do but - it actually sits perfectly comfortable in your hands I only qualify something I say perfectly a lot I say perfect a lot as part of our team culture what was really important for us as we had so many parts of the design that had to be in detail and be simple and be right that we always strive for perfection on every sub component of this product it includes this chamfer dangle what it does is sits in your hand very comfortably in a way that when you hold it it feels like it feels Airy most importantly you can use it all day in comfort it's really important when you talk about the hardware fitting to the background that the hardware is not your way to accomplish what you wanted to do it's meant to move you forward what you think this product does now when we talk about Hardware fitting to the back another thing that's super important is the seamless lines throughout the product when you look at this product you'll see lines going throughout it every line calculated every line built formed perfectly on the device but there's one challenge our vision for the product beyond being a stage 4 Windows was also that we had to bring creativity and productivity to felt such as yourselves the opportunity to transform this device if you will to transition it to the state of getting things done putting this kickstand in the product flies right in the face of seamless lines and getting it perfect but we really spent a lot of time here we knew that if we did not get the kickstand perfect this device would not work we could not take any chances take a look at the three hinges that you see within this device this is a really simple example of the details of the product these are three custom-made hinges mind you there are over 200 custom parts built from the inside out of this product to make it come to life but these hinges they respect justice Steven told you they respect to feel and sound like a high-end car door when you close the device the kickstand just goes away it's not your way when you need the device it's there just in time you want to get something done just open it and it feels great the spec we created was around sound we iterated over and over again in our anechoic chamber this is a critical point we really wanted to get the sound right so you get that visceral feeling that emotional attachment to your product when you open this kickstand and close it it makes it yours it goes away when you don't need it and it's there when you do now we talked about vapor mag a few times and let me bring vapor back to life just a little bit here so you can understand a little bit more of what we did vapor mag essentially becomes what lets us get our product design and create life out of it you can see the breakout behind me let me just explain a few things that we have going on I'm holding up my room key it feels weird to hold up my room key but if you look at this quickly what you'll see is point seven seven millimeters of thickness this is an important point if you can't see it that's all right same as a credit card pull it out your credit cards likely somewhere between 0.75 or 0.85 millimeters thick it's just to illustrate a point Vapor mag is a process where we start with an ingot of magnesium and we melt it down to a molten State we then injection molded magnesium through some tools and we're able to actually mold the intricate details that are needed for surface we mold down to 0.65 millimeters of thickness in any given part 0.75 we mold to 0.65 this is important to understand because for us to get to the design we needed for this product to get the kickstand integrated seamlessly and hold this line throughout the product we had to be able to mold to those tolerances every micron matters within Microsoft Surface we've actually stacked up every part from designing from the inside out so tightly in the product and so cleanly that even if you stuck a piece of tape in the middle of the device it would bulge it would bulge out that tells you how strong this product is how much strength comes with it how light it feels in your hands all those parts play into each other the best part about vapor mag is not just that we can mold 0.65 and get the intricate details like the point six five millimeter angles that go around the product these radii the best part is the smoothness of the finish that comes out of the tools after approximately a hundred and fifty two steps to get the vapor mag looking just like you see now you find that the surface finish on this product and as mike says pride and craftsmanship is perfect it's seamless it screams watch quality finish and when you put it in your hands it feels elegant when you touch it you're going to want to hold it I promise you now I'm proud of vapor mag and I'm proud of the team for the product that they've done but nothing nothing stirs me more nothing gets me more excited than touch touch cover I really want to walk you through touch cover for just a few moments this is an important technology that came out of our group I'm going to walk you through it in two ways the first way is through the experience and the second way I'm going to talk about is the technology let's do the experience first let me explain to you what we try to do with touch cover from GetGo you'll notice I'm going to connect it now to my blue touch cover so I just click it in as you would expect the surface turns blue along with my touch cover and you have a beautiful integration of hardware and software my surface knows what is connected to it I can now bring to life the vision that is touch cover for this product the vision that lets you produce content when you want it how you want it as fast as you've always done it that's what this product was designed for let me give you one more second on this on a little bit of the experience the thing that was so critical for us in creating touch cover was that it had to be three millimeters thin this essentially is at odds of any other keyboard you've used and still have a great typing experience it also had to be a cover you wanted to connect something you always had with you something that gave you confidence just like the kickstand to bring this product to life we've designed the flux fountain two magnets in this product that's a combination of alignment and clamping magnets you could actually never miss connecting this device you can't miss we force you to not miss we do that to give you confidence you close it it feels like a book we designed this organically like a book we wanted it to feel just like that what has more covers on it than books themselves this fine feels like a book when you put it in your hand and you walk away with your product you'll hold it like a book when you carry it against your books it'll feel like it's another book it's just light enough and it feels just perfect now that said I think you're going to fall in love with touch cover I know I have I mean I am seriously in love with that outside of my wife touch covers number two it's very important to me now I never want to take touch cover off and I'd argue that you don't need to and you never have to you saw Mike move his touch cover to the back now when he did that I'm sure every single one you thought like wait a minute how do you move it to the back well touch cover is pretty smart it has an accelerometer built into it the moment you fold it we've know you fold it back we know where you're not using it and it's turned off for you so you never have to take it off and underneath your fingertips it feels great so now you've got a comfortable device with touch cover that's yours it's personalized to you you saw the beautiful colors that we have coming to market and essentially what's brought to you is an experience like none other with touch cover and surface together now I showed you the experience but I wanted to show you the technology because it really is important that you understand it and quite frankly we have a bit of a mad scientist who many of you know named Stevie batiste Stevie actually invented touch cover the fact that we have 30 years of input experience using mice and 15 years creating keyboards we really understand how to create a great typing experience we also knew that if we brought you touch cover and touch cover wasn't any good boy what a breaking moment but we've actually evolved this technology to a point through Stevie and his work to come to a place where we've brought you an experience that's amazing at typing there's actually seven layers squeezed in pressed right into touch cover to keep it three millimeters thin now that's super thin but critical for you to have a great experience when folding it back let me explain to you how the technology works just ever so slightly and quickly so what you're going to see is I'm going to put my hands down on this machine here what you're seeing is this is surface for Windows RT and my hands are down on touch cover you'll notice that my hands are laying flat on touch cover right now yet nothing's happening if this was in fact the capacitive screen or the phone you might have in your pocket or some other device you might have the keyboard would take up half the screen and you put your fingers down and it would look something like that now that's me actually pressing on touch cover and it knows the grams of force coming off my fingertips on to touch cover why is this critical when you type in touch type speed you have to find your home position and rest your hands to do that your keyboard can't fire when you put your hands down it's comfortable you can rest your hands and note as I put pressure on the J key how the pressure goes up as I push harder and as I release the pressure comes off it's actually measuring every gram of force coming off my fingertips and as I start to type it knows how many keys I've hit this keyboard actually measures ten times faster and scanning from a keyboard matrix than any keyboard guarantee that you use today it is super fast and brings great great opportunity for you to be productive and get stuff done obviously I have a lot of pride in this product I hope you love it I can't wait for you to get your hands on it back there and I really mean that Steven thanks for having me up here today that was a moment for our team for sure I do want to talk a little bit about some availability and pricing information and things like that that I know that I know people want to know surface for Windows RT I still say there'll be much more information available on the web and available shortly so surface for Windows RT will be available in both a 32 and a 64 gigabyte model and will be priced like comparable tablets that are based on arm surface for Windows 8 Professional will come in 64 gigabyte and 128 gigabyte storage models and we'll have a retail price comparable with competitive Ultrabook class PCs additional specifics on pricing and packaging will be announced as we get closer to retail availability now of course retail availability for the surface pcs will be around the time of will be at the for the Windows RT PC will be at the time of the Windows 8 general availability and from Windows 8 Pro about three months later surface will be available through the Microsoft's physical stores here in the US and will be available through select online through the Select online outlets of the Microsoft Store as well so welcome everybody to surface I just want to invite Steve Ballmer back up on stage one more time and thank you thank you very much I want to thank Steven and Mike and Panos and their team this has been an unbelievable journey we've invested significantly as you could see in talent in time in capital to bring the surface to market I was asked in the the last few days here why now why now we took the time to really get surface and Windows eight right to do something that was really different and really special we're very proud very very proud of the surface just like we're very proud of Windows 8 because of Windows 8 because of Windows 8 the surface is a PC the surface is a tablet and the surface is something new that we think people will absolutely love we really want those of you here to have a chance to see and touch the surface and talk with some of the people who are involved in designing the product we have several stations set up next door where you can see the work that went into the creation of the surface and we hope you'll you'll stay and join us for that today has been fun for us to put on for you very very exciting and want to thank you all for being part of today's event thanks you