Oops! Surface Pro 3 manual confirms Surface Mini’s existence - gaonagoinat

Apparently mortal at Microsoft forgot to run "obtain and replace" in the Come on Favoring 3 user manual, which makes several references to the non-existent Surface Miniskirt tablet.

The error was first spotted by Paul Thurrott, and information technology's still possible to download the guide from Microsoft's internet site. (The site sometimes spits back an error message, but we did get a PDF document to download after several attempts.)

The manual specifically mentions the "Surface Mini" on quadruplet occasions. It talks about pairing the Surface Pen to the Miniskirt, using the pen in conjunction with the Miniskirt, pushing the pen clitoris to jump into OneNote and locking the Mini's screen orientation.

surfaceminireference — One of many references to the Surface Mini in the Surface Pro 3's manual. (Click to enlarge.)

Microsoft has never habitual the Mini's existence, though several unconfirmed reports claimed that information technology would appear alongside the Surface Pro 3 at a press event penultimate calendar month. Instead, Microsoft only proclaimed the Pro 3, which just landed on store shelves today. Prior to the result, numerous rumors suggested that the the 8-inch Mini tablet would run Windows RT and include a stylus for billet-taking.

According to both Bloomberg and Neowin, Microsoft management decided to pull the Mini at the last minute. It's possible that Microsoft didn't think the product would leap out enough in the brutally competitive small tablet market, or that the company is waiting on a proper touch-supported version of Office. Panos Panay, the head of Microsoft's Surface business, did secernate Bloomberg that the company is still on the job on a smaller version of the Aerofoil.

Patc the manual doesn't tell us anything we didn't already suspect, it does add credenza to the reports that Microsoft nixed the smaller tablet at the eleventh hour. Either that, Beaver State Microsoft just wanted to baffle a exclude of watching the press react on a slow news sidereal day.

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Jared Newman covers personal engineering science from his unaccessible Cincinnati outpost. He also publishes two newsletters, Advisorator for tech advice and Cord Cutter Weekly for help with ditching cable or artificial satellite TV.

Source: https://www.pcworld.com/article/439933/oops-surface-pro-3-manual-confirms-surface-minis-existence.html

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