>> Welcome to Microsoft Unboxed [MUSIC].
I'm one of your hosts Sonia Dara and I'm joined by
my colleague and friend Colleen O'Brien.
>> Hello World.
>> Today's episodes theme is.
>> Surface Hub 2S.
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>> Okay. So I'm very excited about
this episode because I work on the Surface team.
I might've suggested this topic today.
>> That is correct.
>> It's because we just launched our Surface Hub 2S.
We've been talking about it for months now.
So it's awesome to actually get it out in the world.
>> Bravo.
>> Thanks.
>> Well done team.
>> Yeah. So, product launches, they are intense.
>> They can be pretty intense.
>> Have you been part of any in Microsoft?
>> I have been.
I was part of the outlook.com launch.
We had out-of-home, billboards,
driving down the highway,
you can see these outlook.com ads,
we did a television advertisement which featured
Microsoft's first acknowledgment of the same-sex couple on screen.
>> That's awesome.
>> Yeah, it was a really cool team to be a part of.
>> Yeah, I mean launches are really exciting.
So I got to work on the launch for Surface Hub 2S.
It's a large screen collaboration device.
So it's not just a display,
it is a full computer.
The new one is super cool, very lightweight.
We've done a lot of improvements on the device,
it's 60 percent thinner,
40 percent lighter, it is this beautiful multi-touch display.
So imagine you could have it in
meeting rooms and maybe even conference centers,
but it's also meant to be something fluid
enough that you could have it in your office space,
or a huddle space,
or even in a cafe where you could be able to move it from place to
place because we partnered with steel case,
who's a furniture manufacturer and they
curated this mobile room stand for us.
So we're able to mount it and you
can still move it from place to place.
>> Speaking of steel case.
My story for today actually is a report that they delivered about
the current state of how people are working together and
collaborating together in offices,
and the report is titled New Work New Rules.
>> Sassy.
>> How hyper collaboration is redefining teamwork and me-work.
>> Me-work.
>> Studies confirm that people working in teams innovate faster,
achieve better results, and report higher job satisfaction.
>> Yeah, everyone's happier.
>> In fact, companies that promote
collaboration in the workplace are five
times more likely to be high performing and more profitable.
>> Nice, that sounds like all great things.
>> Yes, except here's where things get complicated.
>> Mow bomb.
>> The five reasons teams struggle.
Number one, new work, old office.
Most offices are still designed for linear work,
meaning like I do something,
you do the next thing and they don't really empower any sort of
workflow capabilities around Agile
thinking or having multiple things in motion at once.
Issue number two.
No place to call home. Isn't that sad?
>> Yeah.
>> Teams need to work in close proximity
with easy access to their information
but they often don't have a home where they can do this.
So for example, if you're working in a virtual team,
maybe you're working with someone from a different building,
there's no like touchdown space for you to
all get together and look at all of your work.
Issue number three, lack of control.
People feel a lack of control over their environment,
and struggle to balance
their individual work with the demands of the team's work.
>> Just chaos everywhere.
>> It's totally chaos.
Most bases are designed with fixed furniture and walls that can
adapt to quickly change
for the activity that you're performing in them.
>> It's just all solid.
>> Yeah. So like for example,
if all of a sudden we needed to have
a bunch of people in here for a big group interview.
That would take a lot of time to set up.
>> This is very firm.
>> Yeah, we need more agile work spaces to really
accommodate the quickly changing pace of work that's going on.
>> It's like a coursing river,
and if it wants to change course it can.
>> Okay. Issue number four,
ideas are getting stuck.
So solving big problems requires having big ideas,
but most collaborative spaces are designed for sharing
information which means that people tend to sit,
listen, and participate more passively.
No one's like getting up,
pinning notes here, writing something over here.
We need our spaces to better engage people physically,
and emotionally, and our problem-solving activities.
>> Right.
>> Lastly, tools fall short.
Most people have multiple personal devices
but less access to technology for group work.
So if you think about a lot of the applications
and services that you use.
It's really optimized for an individual experience,
as opposed to how are we thinking about this collaboratively?
So here at Microsoft we have
a few great solutions like Teams and Office
365 that put groups at the center of the experience.
But up until recently,
we didn't really have a great device solution
for groups that were working the other in-person.
That's when I'm going to kick it over to you.
>> Yeah. Player one enters the room aka the Surface Hub 2S.
So Surface Hub one was
a really big success and we created Surface Hub 2S to help
solve some of those pin points
that steelcase pointed out in their research.
So, the beauty and the value around Surface Hub 2S is you can
make any space a team work space, it's super light,
it's very agile on the steelcase stand,
and then paired with steelcases
flex space that they announced as well.
They create a set of furniture that's super lightweight
and modular so you can move it around, expand a space,
you could add in some more temporary walls
and a lot of very cool furniture,
and pair that with the Surface Hub 2S,
the power of making any space a
collaboration space in a team workspace.
Additionally we realized it was really
important to bring these teams together.
So you have Microsoft Teams, the product,
but we wanted a device that really showcased it best.
So, we have this great 4K camera that's on top,
it's a 4K plus resolution screen.
So when everyone shows up like in
a Brady Bunch view of everyone on camera.
Everyone looks fantastic and beautiful.
>> It's like true to size.
>> Yeah. So it makes everyone feel less remote,
and everyone's part of the meeting.
>> In the space with you.
>> People are more inclined to turn on
their camera which is great but if say,
you're like trying to work from
home but people don't know you're actually like on the beach,
there's a blur feature too so you can blur out your background.
>> Work from beach?
>> Work from beach.
>> So we thought about speakers and how can we make sure that the
microphone's and everything are built in and it's
very beautiful, but functional.
There's some other software applications
that really come to life on Surface Hub 2S,
one is the white board application.
So this is where anyone can be on any Windows 10 device,
or even on an iPhone,
you can be inking, adding in notes,
you can drop in images from
being one really cool feature is called ink grab.
So imagine you drop in a whiteboard photo
that you've taken in old-school whiteboard and-
>> Sure.
>> Right.
>> So it's good.
>> Analog or whatever, you can drop that photo into whiteboard,
use the ink grab feature.
It turns it back into digital ink.
So you can start erasing in,
and editing in, it's as
if you had drawn it right into the application.
>> Yeah, whenever I scroll through my phone photos,
they're always like, those are meeting notes.
>> Yeah, meeting notes that you lost and you're like cool.
>> Forgot about those.
>> Yeah. So we worked really hard on the new Surface Hub 2Pen
too to make it like a really great inking experience.
So, the launch was super-exciting,
we did it in New York City at
the steelcase work-life center which has
a beautiful view of Central Park
and we had all this press come in,
and Panos Panay, our Chief Product Officer delivered the keynote.
There were a couple of surprises during the keynote.
One was that we announced
a battery with Schneider Electric, the partners.
So, Panos unplugged the device and we
were able to run a whole demo on it. So I was like wow.
>> Dramatic.
>> Then the second is, he slid this back door and
we revealed an 85 inch that no one was expecting.
A lot of people were like, oh,
cool, that is gigantic.Yeah.
They're somewhere. So, it
was really exciting to be part of the launch.
If you haven't already, you can check out everything about
Surface Hub 2S at surface.com.
One of the Surface Hub videos you
might find on the YouTube channel is
literally the unboxing of the Surface Hub 2S,
but now I'm going to go the boxed segment.
>> It's called outside the box, keep it going.
>> Yeah.
>> All right. We got 30-seconds around the clock.
So Colleen and I have never seen these questions.
What's going to happen? Okay. Colleen.
>> Yes.
>> What's the most embarrassing song you know all the words to?
>> I would say like every Matchbox twenty song.
>> Yeah. That's embarrassing.
>> Okay. All right.
Sonya unlimited sushi for life or unlimited tacos for life?
>> Why do I always get this?
You know, I am going to be healthy and say sushi.
I also just got back from Japan and oh my God, it is so good.
Oh my God, no.
>> Yeah, I got a good one.
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>> Bye everyone.
>> I hope you have a surface spectacular day.
>> Surface spectacular?
>> It's what I am saying now.
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