As first reported by Petri, Microsoft has cancelled the launch of its Surface Hub 2X collaboration device. The unit was first announced in 2018 and was to be released this year featuring a completely new operating system with tiling and display rotation.
The Verge have also picked up the story: “In a leaked webinar to Surface Hub 2 sellers, Microsoft says it’s still committed to developing tiling and rotation but it’s not clear when these features will arrive. ‘They might not require an upgrade for Surface Hub 2S customers, or they might not require a paid compute cartridge swap,’ says a Microsoft spokesperson in the webinar. ‘We don’t have plans to release a compute cartridge in 2020, because the best way to release those capabilities — tiling and rotation — may not require us to take that path.’”
Brad Sams of Petri reached out to Microsoft for comment, who had the following to say: “We have an ongoing dialogue with our customers on Hub and are working to align the roadmap to best meet their needs. The top two priorities for Hub in 2020 are deploying the 85” device and rolling out an OS update that includes many top features customers have been requesting since Surface Hub 2S launched, including improving IT integration, deployment and management capabilities at no cost for all version 1 Hubs and Hub 2S devices. We’ll have more to share in the coming months.”
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