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Microsoft Surface Event 2018: The 5 Biggest Announcements

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Microsoft just took the wraps off of a host of exciting new Surface devices. The company unveiled a new Surface Pro 6 tablet, Surface Laptop 2 and Surface Studio 2 all-in-one desktop PC at a media event in New York, and surprised with its entry into the world of high-end headphones with the Surface Headphones. It also unveiled a slew of new features for Windows and Office 365. Here"s an overview of the new products: Surface Pro 6 Surface Pro 6 is 67 percent more powerful than the previous model, 2017"s Surface Pro, and will start at $899. The Surface Pro 6 will also start at £879 in the UK and AU$1,349 in Australia. Other specification include, the surface pro 6 has: 8th-gen Intel CPU 3-inch touch display Up to 1TB of SSD storage 5 hours of battery life Weighs 1.7 pounds Redesigned thermal system Available in black. The Surface Laptop 2 [xyz-ihs snippet="surface-laptop-2"] The sells will start at $999 . UK and Australia pricing wasn"t immediately avai...

The Six Biggest Announcements From Microsoft’s Build 2018 Event

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[caption id="attachment_11336" align="aligncenter" width="768"]            Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella [/caption] Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella- just wrapped up the keynote at the company’s big developer conference- Microsoft BUILD. This year, the keynote was a wild ride through the future of what the software giant thinks the world will look like, but in between the philosophy quotes and visions of dystopias where you have Skype embedded in your car dashboard, Microsoft actually did reveal a few new projects and products. This year is all about software, AI, distributed computing, and the “multi-device” experience. In case it wasn’t clear before, Microsoft wants to make it clear that it doesn’t care if you’re using a Windows PC, a Mac, an Android phone, or anything else that can access the internet. It just wants you to be using its platform and its software to do so, and that’s the core of everything the company an...