Xbox users and Windows 10 will also get enhanced sound from Dolby Atmos and support for 4K gaming videos as part of the Creators Update release.The update will also boost the operating system’s social media chops. The OS will now find the most commonly communicated-with contacts you have and will make sharing stuff with them easier.Demonstrators showed that if you right-click on a file, the option to share it with your top four contacts pops up instantly. It can also filter communications so that messages from those top contacts get priority – initially in email and Skype, and then SMS and Xbox later.These top contacts can also be shown in the bottom right of the screen and they can send you “shoulder taps” – basically emoji messages in 3D. That could get irritating very quickly.It wasn’t just about the software at today’s conference – the Surface Book is getting an update and there’s a monster 28-inch new Surface aimed at designers.The top-end Core i7-powered Surface Book is getting an upgrade, with a faster processor that required a new cooling system, double the graphics performance of last year’s model, and 30 per cent more battery life to give 16 hours of operations.

The end result, promised head of the Surface line Panos Panay, is the fastest and best-specced laptop out there. It will be out in November for $2,399 and is available for preorder today.Panay also unveiled the Surface Studio, a 28-inch screen that features the thinnest LCD touchscreen ever produced, just 12.5mm thick and powered by a base unit. The screen has 13.5 million pixels at 192PPI and a 3:2 aspect ratio – but the grunt is in the hardware.The Surface Studio runs on an Intel quad-core Core i5 or i7, high-end Nvidia graphics and a 1TB or 2TB hard drive. The screen also has microphones arrayed around it for voice control and a “studio quality” camera for videoconferencing.The screen can be folded back to around a 20-degree angle, like a drafting board. The Surface Pen works on it, but Microsoft has also built the Surface Dial for the platform.The silver hockey puck works on and off the screen. On the desk it can be turned to scroll forward and backward through a document or through changes in a document or artwork. Alternatively it can be put on the screen and used there to scroll through color palates and different commands.

The Dial will also work with Surface Pro 3 and 4 models, and the Surface Book.The Surface Studio will set you back $2,999 and is available for pre-order now and in limited quantities by November. Here are the super-slab's main geeky tech specs:Display: 637.35 mm x 438.90 mm x 12.5 mm (25.1” x 17.3” x 0.5”). 28” 4500 x 3000 (192 PPI) touchscreen with 10 point multi-touch. This sits on a 250.00 mm x 220.00 mm x 32.2 mm (9.8” x 8.7” x 1.3”) base.

Microsoft’s head honcho Satya Nadella popped on stage at the end of the set to wrap up the session, and put the boot into Apple.“Each of us has an innate desire to create, to connect, to express – that’s what makes us human,” he said. “The last 10 years in our industry has seen a variety of new technologies. Much of that has been slanted toward consumption, however I believe the next 10 years will be defined by technology that empowers creation.”Microsoft is all about the creatives, the builders, Nadella said, somewhat disingenuously. Apple has traditionally been the territory of designers and other creatives, but it’s clear that the new hardware and software is aimed directly at one of Cupertino’s core markets.

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Apple once again saw revenues drop, as 45.5 million iPhone 7 sales were not enough to boost its fourth-quarter earnings.CEO Tim Cook talked up the particularly strong performance of Apple's internet services while glossing over another quarter of falling revenues."Our strong September quarter results cap a very successful fiscal 2016 for Apple," Cook said."We're thrilled with the customer response to iPhone 7, iPhone 7 Plus and Apple Watch Series 2, as well as the incredible momentum of our Services business, where revenue grew 24 percent to set another all-time record."The figures come just two days before Apple is expected to announce a refresh to its Mac line with a new edition of Macbook Pro laptop. The notoriously tight-lipped Apple may have accidentally leaked images of the notebook inside a recent system update. The WiFi Alliance reckons it's bestowed on a waiting world the first hint of what 5G will look like, and apparently it's a radio link that can manage 8 Gbps over 10 metres.The group has announced the first products to carry its freshly-minted WiGig certification.Chipsets to carry the certification come from Qualcomm (the QCA9500 chipset with reference solutions for clients and routers) and Intel (Tri-Band Wireless).

There are also reference adapters from Socionext, and Dell's Latitude E7450/70 laptop.The big advantage the 60 GHz band offers over what we're familiar with for Wi-Fi – 2.4 GHz or 5 GHz – is that there's plenty of room for extremely wide channels that provide multi-gigabit per second capacity.The short range of 60 GHz WiGig makes it most suitable for applications like docking and in-room device-to-device interconnect – file transfers, multimedia streaming, and (if enough people eventually care about it) virtual reality headset connections.In a crowded environment, beamforming on its multiple-in, multiple-out antennae should cut down interference.Where devices support operation across all the Wi-Fi bands, the standard stipulates the ability to keep sessions intact while switching between 2.4 GHz, 5 GHz or 60 GHz frequencies.Stretching the use-case out to the 5G business, a Wi-Fi alliance bod told LightReading that with a cantenna long-range directional antennae WiGig's range could be extended to distances sufficient to provide cellular base station backhaul. We all know that sinking feeling when you realise your laptop screen is broken and you need to use it sooner than you can get it fixed.So has Thomas Buckley-Houston, who's written a MacGyver-esque how-to for getting to his phone from the laptop's keyboard (going the other way via VNC is easier) – when he couldn't see the lappie's screen.Why bother? Because Buckley-Houston was in the Himalayas at the time, in Ladakh in Northern India, two days by bus from repairs.

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