This year is the best year yet for new Surface devices. Here is why that's so exciting, and why I think it matters.
With this week's launch of the Surface Book 2, Microsoft's program to showcase Windows 10 through hardware seems to have finally hit its stride. It's a drastic change from just a few years ago, when the company had a $900 million "inventory adjustment" due to the Surface RT. That, along with general skepticism of the form factor of Surface Pro, had many in the business calling for Microsoft just to give up.
In 2017 alone, the company released Surface Pro, Surface Laptop, and Surface Book 2. (Surface Studio also launched outside the U.S., which is not insignificant). The same hardware group spearheaded the design and manufacturing of the new 4K-enabled Xbox One X, which is evidently setting sales records and beating expectations.
Full story from the WindowsCentral blog...