“This device may be the point that history recalls as the moment ‘big tech’ took repair seriously”
Don’t tell the others, but one thing I particularly enjoy is the odd appearance on the PC Pro podcast. Over the past 12 months, we’ve covered the gentle and largely positive shifts on the topic of Right to Repair (R2R). However, on episode 576 there was an unfortunate incident when I became “tired and emotional” while discussing a story. Enough time has now passed for me to explain.
In January, Microsoft released a video (pcpro.link/332surf) featuring Brandon Cole, a senior DFX engineer at Microsoft’s Design for Repair. In a little over seven minutes, Brandon whips apart a new Surface SE laptop, a low-powered, budget-conscious unit designed for education. Its USP is that parts and spares infrastructure is also on-stream, so schools can fix broken laptops themselves. The current trend is that broken PCs and tablets are shoved in a cupboard because schools don’t have the budget to replace the unrepairable. This device may be the point that history recalls as the moment “big tech” took repair seriously.
I threw my podcast toys
