It is one of the few industries where the company is the commercial and consumer market leader.

Not only Apple laptops seem to be in its sights but also the slimmed-down Windows Ultrabooks many of its partners already offer. The target is the businessperson lugging around a laptop PC and a tablet in every-kilo-counts carry-on bags.īy comparing the Pro 3 specifications in marketing with the MacBook Air rather than the iPad, Microsoft has made clear its aim of offering a single device combining the advantages of two platforms. The market Microsoft is chasing provides the context. But even then, this product has significant issues with regards to hardware security and how mobile computing devices fit into evolving corporate IT policies. We don't know what comes next for the Surface Pro series, but we can't wait to find out.Potential Microsoft Surface Pro 3 buyers should treat anything a journalist says about the tablet with caution. Released in October 2021, the device comes with an all-new design, updated processors, a 120Hz display, and the long-awaited inclusion of Thunderbolt 4. Surface Pro 8 now carries on the legacy of the Surface Pro series. In late 2019, I called Surface Pro the most important PC of the 2010s. Most of the Surface Pro 3 reviews relentlessly questioned the need for the Surface and whether the category could even succeed for Microsoft instead of being some wacky experiment. Surface Pro 4 is the first Surface to be reviewed as itself as opposed to the concept behind it. I said in 2015 that it was the first Surface to be taken seriously:

The Surface Pro 4 was released 17 months later and delivered what we now call the 'classic' Surface Pro design featuring a larger 12.3-inch 2763 x 1824 screen, improved cameras, Windows Hello for the first time, and other modest changes.

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