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Tuesday, December 5, 2017

Microsoft, NFL stretch out Surface sideline arrangement to another season

Microsoft Surface will keep on being 'the official tablet of the NFL'.




The National Football League has restored its association with Microsoft for it to keep on supplying Surface tablets to refs for video surveys on the field until the finish of the 2018/2019 season. 

The Surface tablets are likewise given to mentors and players to inspect film of past play amid diversions. 

"We're eager to help the NFL change the diversion with Surface gadgets being utilized by players and mentors on the sidelines to settle on more educated choices, officials utilizing Surface for moment replay to upgrade the speed of the amusement, and groups utilizing Microsoft items in their business and football operations," Yusuf Mehdi, Microsoft's corporate VP, said in an announcement to SportsPro. "We anticipate proceeding with the organization next season." 

Microsoft has held a restrictive concurrence with the NFL since 2013, in an arrangement allegedly worth $400 million more than five years. It's not clear how much the 2018/2019 arrangement is worth and why just a year was picked as terms. 

Surface use in the NFL has seen discussion. Amid the 2016 season, Patriots mentor Bill Belichick raged that he was "finished with the tablets" subsequent to crushing a Surface on the sideline in earlier weeks. Microsoft reacted painting Surface as a "triumphant favorable position." 

In August, the NFL started utilizing the Surface with arbitrators on the field to accelerate the replay audit process. 

In another innovation push, the NFL reported a week ago it will utilize Amazon Web Services as its standard machine learning and investigation supplier to help the execution of the group's player insights stage. AWS likewise turned into the "official innovation supplier" of the NFL..



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