Commentary on Microsoft Surface 8 Special Event

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Ray Sidney-Smith

Augusto Pinaud

Art Gelwicks

Art Gelwicks, a productivity and collaboration consultant, blogger at theideapump.com, and host of the Being Productive podcast, CrossPlatform podcast, as well as ProductivityCast Podcast.

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Raymond Sidney-Smith 0:00

Hello, personal productivity enthusiasts and community Welcome to Anything But Idle, the productivity news podcast, of course. I'm Ray Sidney-Smith. Couldn't find a button there, and we're your hosts for Anything But Idle. This is Episode 82. Correct me if I'm wrong. So is this episode 8282 82. Look at that. And we're coming to you for a special commentary episode, in response to Microsoft's product event yesterday. And so what we're going to do is we are going to introduce our guest, Art Gelwicks. You know him as the productivity blogger at the idea pump, and he's our friend of the various podcasts, Art Gelwicks. How's it going?

Art Gelwicks 0:47

Hey, guys, I'm getting rained on here right now. But doing well.

Raymond Sidney-Smith 0:51

Yeah, we can. We can hear that. We can hear the pitter patter.

Art Gelwicks 0:54

It's coming down pretty good. So hopefully it stays on the outside of the house. so

Raymond Sidney-Smith 1:00

fantastic. So let's get right into the event. There were supposedly eight product announcements, I tried to capture all of the product announcements, I think I got all eight. And so talk to me about the event. What did you think about the event? What were the things that stood out for you? Initially?

Art Gelwicks 1:18

Well, watching the event I right away, I'll say it was short, from beginning to end. I think the total duration was, what, 45 minutes. So they didn't drag a lot of the stuff out?

Augusto Pinaud 1:30

Well, actually, it was three of the four because the event could have been really

Art Gelwicks 1:39

six. Okay. So yes, that is one of the first takeaways is that, and unfortunately, I don't remember the gentleman's name, but the first speaker does tend to dry out his speech a bit he it, it has a very Bob Ross kind of vibe to the initial part. So

Augusto Pinaud 1:57

I was watching it on YouTube, I couldn't watch it live. And I was doing to x and I came two or three times to check that the 2x was actually working. Yeah, it's

Art Gelwicks 2:06

his his pacing could use a little little bit of a goose up. I mean, when you when you compare it to some of the other events, when you compare it to the Samsung in the apple there there, it was definitely lower key than you would normally expect. But that's not necessarily a bad thing. It's just kind of a thing. So from a messaging standpoint, and a targeting standpoint, they stayed on topic. I mean, they didn't dig into Windows 11, or Microsoft 365, or anything like that. This was a hardware event. And that's what they talked about was hardware.