Windows 10: Behind the Design: An Engineer’s Tour of Surface Studio

Brink · Jun 16, 2017

In the latest of our Microsoft Mechanics Surface series, Cindy Louis Wallace, general manager for Surface hardware takes us inside Surface Studio to reveal the engineering and craftsmanship behind its elegant, minimalistic design.

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Screen

The team’s goal for Surface Studio was to enable new modes of productivity and creativity. Central to this goal is the Surface Studio’s ultra-thin, 28-inch PixelSense display, providing a large work surface with a resolution comprising of 13-and-a-half million pixels – 60% more than you will find on a 4K monitor.

With each display individually calibrated, what you see on the screen is what you will see when you print. With simple switching between color modes—sRGB, DCI-P3 or VIVID (P3 D65)—the color gamut of Surface Studio can be changed to suit your project, and with the True Scale feature, a page shown full-size on the screen will have exactly the dimensions it will have when printed.

Like its siblings, Surface Book and Surface Pro, the PixelSense display on Surface Studio supports full ten-point multitouch and Surface Pen. The team also developed the Surface Dial as a companion accessory for the free hand when using Surface Pen.

Using capacitive touch and a custom digitizer the screen is able to recognize Surface Dial’s unique signature, bringing application-specific controls to wherever you place the dial on the screen. With such a large work area, Surface Dial gives you access to the menus and options you need without having to break your flow.

Hinge

The three independent spring systems and linkages in the hinge assembly counterbalance the weight of the screen.

The screen actually weighs 13lbs, but thanks to its’ zero-gravity hinge it appears almost weightless when it moves.

Within the machined metal-alloy casing additional a butterfly-array of plates help translate the force of someone attempting to move the screen directly to the hinge.

This design makes it possible to move the screen between vertical- and canvas-mode with just a light touch. The plates also provide stiffening. Despite its thin profile the screen feels solid, barely flexing even when leaning on the screen to work.

Base

The low-profile base is the powerhouse of the system.

The Surface Studio comes in three core configurations, each with NVIDIA discrete graphics with 2GB to 4GB of dedicated GPU memory. Surface Studio configurations range from an Intel Core i5 up to a top of the line, Intel Core i7 with 32GB RAM, and a 2TB/128SSD hybrid drive with high speed read/write access.

To add to their challenge, the team wanted to pack power into a low volume base without compromising the thermal design. The heat pipes, and a custom fan algorithm controlling three internal fans independently keep the unit cool and quiet, while maintaining the CPU, GPU and power supply at stable operating temperatures.

Although small, the power supply is integrated within it and it provides a full complement of ports to connect existing peripherals. Its thoughtful design even extends to the detachable power cable, which includes a locking mechanism so that it won’t detach accidentally.

These are just a few of the highlights of Surface Studio. You can learn more by watching Cindy’s six-minute overview.

Further, you can watch the entire Microsoft Mechanics series on the design and management of Surface devices here, and keep up to date by following us on @MSFTMechanics.
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zacks · Jun 16, 2017

print from windows mobile

Microsoft and Windows phone, not to mention Surface RT, are worthless. We cannot print from a phone. We cannot watch Silverlight nor Java content from Windows RT and Surface. Hey Microsoft fire all the managers, designers, engineers, staff, and every
boss.

You are an embarrassment to the intellect of everyone.

Regards,

Zack Shahin, PE

Note: PE stands from Professional Engineer which Microsoft has none

WilliamFazakerly · Jun 16, 2017

Visual Studio 2015 unusable for development

*Original Title: Visual Studio 2015 options

Forgive me if this is the wrong forum, but I don't see a better one.

I have just installed Visual Studio 2015 Community on my Windows 10 Surface Pro 4. I develop old-fashioned programs for Windows Forms, and I have been using Visual Studio since 2003 and now using VS 2010. In the VS 2010 forms designer I see the form exactly
as it will appear in the executable - I can count pixels. In VS 2015 designer the form appears scaled down, and the relationship between controls and placement seems to be unpredictable. When I import old projects from VS 2010, the forms are all compressed
with controls on top of each other, and I cannot work with them. When developing new projects, I have been unable to control the appearance of the form in the executable. So, I have found Visual Studio 2015 unusable for my development, and I have gone back
to VS 2010 on Windows 7. Is there some setting or option to make the Visual Studio 2015 designer work in a WYSIWYG mode as it did in Visual Studio 2010?

Thanks,

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