{"id":399070,"date":"2026-04-15T03:48:23","date_gmt":"2026-04-15T03:48:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/399070\/"},"modified":"2026-04-15T03:48:23","modified_gmt":"2026-04-15T03:48:23","slug":"microsofts-finally-giving-up-on-its-massive-surface-hub-touchscreen-displays","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/399070\/","title":{"rendered":"Microsoft\u2019s finally giving up on its massive Surface Hub touchscreen displays"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1ymtmqpi _17nnmdy1 _17nnmdy0 _1xwtict1\">Microsoft is reportedly ending production of its <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theverge.com\/2023\/9\/21\/23883955\/microsoft-surface-hub-3-portrait-mode\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Surface Hub 3<\/a> collaborative office display and canceling plans for a Surface Hub 4, according to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.windowscentral.com\/hardware\/surface\/surface-hub-is-dead-microsoft-pulls-the-plug-on-its-50-inch-and-85-inch-collaborative-touch-displays\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Windows Central<\/a>. The extra-large digital whiteboard that included its own built-in PC was <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theverge.com\/2015\/1\/21\/7867585\/microsoft-surface-hub-announced\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">originally announced in 2015<\/a> ahead of the launch of Windows 10 and came in two sizes, 50 inches and 85 inches, priced at $8,000 and $20,000, respectively. It has outlasted former Surface leader Panos Panay, who <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theverge.com\/2023\/9\/18\/23878609\/microsoft-windows-panos-panay-leaving\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">left for Amazon in 2023<\/a>, and other gone-but-not-forgotten Surface hardware like the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theverge.com\/2024\/12\/6\/24314732\/microsoft-surface-studio-2-plus-end-of-production\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Surface Studio all-in-one<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.windowscentral.com\/phones\/the-surface-duo-is-dead-microsoft-pulls-plug-on-usd1-500-surface-duo-2-after-just-one-android-os-upgrade\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Surface Duo<\/a>, and Surface <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theverge.com\/2022\/10\/14\/23400839\/microsoft-surface-headphones-3-no-new-model-2-features\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">headphones<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1ymtmqpi _17nnmdy1 _17nnmdy0 _1xwtict1\">Microsoft gave the Surface Hub line a few updates over its ten-year lifespan, including <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theverge.com\/2018\/9\/26\/17904860\/microsoft-surface-hardware-modular-processor-upgrade-cartridge-studio-pc\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">a modular design<\/a> that allowed users to replace the internal components, like the processor and motherboard, without replacing the whole display. Pitched at times as Microsoft\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theverge.com\/2018\/5\/15\/17352624\/microsoft-surface-hub-2-features-launch-date-pricing\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">vision of the office of the future<\/a>, the Surface Hub\u2019s pricey place in the office never really materialized, particularly once the pandemic sped up the shift to remote and hybrid workspaces.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1ymtmqpi _17nnmdy1 _17nnmdy0 _1xwtict1\">According to Windows Central, Microsoft and third-party sellers will continue selling the stock they have left of the Surface Hub 3. The Surface Hub 2S and Hub 3 will have <a href=\"https:\/\/learn.microsoft.com\/en-us\/surface-hub\/surface-hub-driver-firmware-accessories-lifecycle\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">support for driver and firmware updates<\/a> until at least 2027.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Microsoft is reportedly ending production of its Surface Hub 3 collaborative office display and canceling plans for a&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":399071,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[61,60,1071,43,216,80],"class_list":["post-399070","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-technology","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-microsoft","tag-news","tag-tech","tag-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/399070","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=399070"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/399070\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/399071"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=399070"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=399070"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=399070"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}