Microsoft's Surface gets its first Service Pack, devs and yacht owners rejoice

Forget the future for just one second. Kicking off its TechEd conference last week, Microsoft released Service Pack 1 for its tabletop-inclined Surface. The update's mostly developer-centric -- not too surprising given its small customer base at present -- with one of the only bullet points that'll directly interest the end user being new calibration guides for setting up the system without needing an external display. No indication on if set up still requires a keyboard a mouse, but if that's a concern, keep your fingers crossed they find a way around that before you pony up the $13,000 to join Lazarra and Roker as an early adopter.

[convoyBot Posted May 17th 2009 9:29PM]

I played with the Surface recently on a visit to Microsoft. It's a very beautiful product. I don't understand why Microsoft is so slow in pushing it out. I guess it costs too much to mass-market it. If it were more common, there are a lot of cool applications that can be done on it.

[(Unverified) Posted May 17th 2009 11:07PM]

What's a microsoft?

[(Unverified) Posted May 17th 2009 11:12PM]

omg! its a giant i-

oh shit gonna get lowranked.

[tiagoclaus Posted May 18th 2009 1:36AM]

dear engadget.
could you please stop bashing ms surface?
thank you,
tc.

[(Unverified) Posted May 18th 2009 1:58AM]

when will the Microsoft surface get launched in India, does someone know ?

[(Unverified) Posted May 18th 2009 8:55AM]

I think apple should come out with something like this..

[Herbaceous Border Patrol Posted May 18th 2009 7:11AM]

Dude, give it up. Nobody cares about your blog.

[(Unverified) Posted May 18th 2009 7:49AM]

Awesome stuff!! I just loved it. Not because I am a Microsoft employee but i truly understand that its gonn rock.

At microsoft there are many other products that we are coming up. If you haven't checked it till now, go ahead- http://bit.ly/OxdIK

Kindly send me ur reviews about it! Thanks

[(Unverified) Posted May 18th 2009 8:54AM]

Awesome

[fourblades Posted May 18th 2009 1:13PM]

For some reason, the title made me want to start singing "I'm on a boat"....

[ashinusa Posted May 18th 2009 4:44PM]

I really liked the concept. But it's hard to tell where this product is gonna go.
Microsoft has laid off 80-90% of the hardware team for Surface. Not sure what their plan going forward is.