Microsoft Floor operating iPadOS? Nope, it was a advertising flub

I feel even non-techy folks can inform the distinction between Microsoft’s Floor line and the omnipresent iPad at this level, whilst each product traces get extra options that cross the road between consumption pill and laptop computer different. Perhaps that’s why a Microsoft promo confirmed a Floor machine operating Apple’s software program. Whoops.

Over the weekend, a put up on the official Floor model Twitter/X account proclaimed: “Learn, spotlight, summarize, repeat… all on Floor Professional, the final word analysis buddy.” And the photograph does certainly present somebody utilizing a Floor Professional… with what’s clearly the iPadOS model of Microsoft Phrase on display screen. Presumably it was performed with the assistance of Photoshop.

If the final interface of the app isn’t a useless giveaway, clock the huge swipe-up gesture bar on the underside that iPads use as an alternative of a house button. On Home windows 11, that might be both a full taskbar or a hidden one. As somebody who’s been begging for a top-aligned taskbar ever since Home windows 11 arrived, this hurts.

Maybe rubbing it in a bit, Twitter customers employed the platform to “add context” to the put up, a device usually used to fight deliberate misinformation. “That is an iPad screenshot on a Floor,” says the extra data, with a hyperlink to Apple’s iPad promo web page.

The tweet has since been deleted, however the screenshots will stay in infamy. Hey, not less than it’s not fairly as dangerous as CNN presenters utilizing your branded product placement Floor tablets as iPad stands.