Microsoft Surface Unboxing Video Spreads Like Wildfire

The video I recorded and blogged about two days ago, regarding the unboxing of the Microsoft Surface we took delivery of on Wednesday 6th Feb 2012 has spread like wildfire across the web, having been picked up my a myriad of websites. Here is the link to the original post http://dcdoolan.wordpress.com/2012/02/08/microsoft-surface-unboxing/

Microsoft Surface Unboxing from RGU:Computing on Vimeo.

Since its upload it has received 3139 views in little over 48 hours. The following are a selection of sites the have discussed the video / embedded it into their blogs etc.

http://www.slashgear.com/samsung-sur40-microsoft-surface-gets-unboxed-and-booted-09212767/
http://www.slashgear.com/tags/microsoft-surface/
http://cbeagrie.wordpress.com/2012/02/09/1042/
http://www.cloudbulletin.com/news/samsung-sur40-microsoft-surface-gets-unboxed-and-booted
http://www.i4u.com/2012/02/robert-gordon/samsung-sur40-microsoft-surface-gets-unboxed-and-booted
http://www.istartedsomething.com/20120209/microsoft-surface-2-begin-deliveries-samsung-sur40-unboxing-and-first-boot/
http://1zaurorath.h-info.co.in/?p=602
http://samsungbrands.blogspot.com/2012/02/samsung-sur40-microsoft-surface-gets.html
http://technologydailynews.com/2012/02/samsung-sur40-microsoft-surface-gets-unboxed-and-booted/
http://worldwidetechnews.com/2012/02/samsung-sur40-microsoft-surface-gets-unboxed-and-booted/
http://nl.hardware.info/extern/nieuws/23724134/samsung-sur40-microsoft-surface-gets-unboxed-and-booted
http://gadgetnuts.info/samsung-sur40-microsoft-surface-gets-unboxed-and-booted-slashgear.html
http://www.allaboutwindows7.com/microsoft-surface-2-begin-deliveries-samsung-sur40-unboxing-and-first-boot-2/
http://www.winmatrix.com/forums/index.php?/topic/33776-microsoft-surface-2-samsung-sur40-unboxing-and-first-boot/

There are probably many other posts to be found on the web about this, but the above should give you some idea of its popularity.

Microsoft Surface Unboxing

Today the School of Computing / IDEAS Research Institute, Robert Gordon University took delivery of an MS Surface. The video below depicts the unboxing process, the first boot-up and playing around with some of the features including some surfing on bing maps and browsing of the associated imagery. We spent about  half an hour unboxing it and just seeing what it can do. You can certainly expect to see it if you visit the School during Applicants day 7th/10th March as well as series of talks and practical workshops. I hope you enjoy the video, I edited the footage together quickly once we powered down the surface for the evening, so this comes to you right off the editing suite, rendered just minutes ago. I am sure that we will spend a good amount of time playing with it tomorrow and over the course of the coming days, weeks & months. You can read some more material about the Surface from here. For more videos from the School of Computing you may visit the Schools Vimeo channel http://vimeo.com/rgucomputing/videos.