During Microsoft’s October Surface Event and press conference, the company made some exciting announcements, not just focusing on the Surface Laptop 2, Surface Pro 6, and Surface Studio 2, Microsoft also announced the all-new Surface headphones, Office 365, and Windows 10 Updates.

The new Surface PC series now comes with advanced features and new designs. Microsoft’s Surface Laptop 2 now comes in a range of colours including platinum, burgundy, cobalt blue, graphite gold, and the colour that really stood out to people, Black. As well as the design, there are other major changes in the specifications. Here is a list of their most popular announcements:

• 5-inch PixelSense Display
• 1,500:1 contrast ratio
• One complete charge gives video playback time for 14.5 hours
• Core i5 8250U/i7-8650U
• Intel UHD 620
• 8-16GB RAM
• Internal Storage 128GB, 256GB, 512GB, 1TB SSD

Surface Studio 2, also dubbed as the Fastest Surface ever, too, has received some major refurbishments, such as:

• 28” PixelSense™ Display
• 4500 x 3000 (192 PPI) resolution
• 10 point multi-touch
• Intel® Core™ i7-7820HQ
• TPM 2.0 chip for enterprise security

Another in the series of the Surface PC’s line-up presented during the event was the Surface Pro 6 and has proved its effectiveness in the Tagline ‘the go-anywhere versatility’ with the incredible power of Intel Core 8th Gen i5 or i7, this can fit in its 770 gms with i5, and 784 gms with i7. Coming in two classic colours Platinum and Black, the device also boasts 10 point multi-touch, 12.3” PixelSense™ Display, Intel® UHD Graphics 620 (i5), and Windows Hello face authentication camera (front-facing), with other conventional hardware parts like ambient light sensor, accelerometer, gyroscope, and wireless Bluetooth 4.1.

Though Microsoft 10’s latest update 1089, had a good amount of media attention, some of its features still missed the highlights. Microsoft took this event as an opportunity to show off these overlooked features as well. Below are listed the major features of the operating system, the firm announced on the day-

• Your Phone App: That will allow you to synchronise your mobile phone with your PC.
• Timeline: It will allow you to sift through the projects you have previously worked on.
• Inking and 3D: It transforms hand-drawn sketches into perfectly formatted slides.

After the failed attempt to boost the adoption rates of Microsoft Edge, Microsoft has finally done something right for the promotion of the software, too, during the event. It was clearly laid out that whilst the browser has all the features that the other prominent browsers at present have, there are some specific features which none of the other browsers have. Marketing-done-right indeed! Here is a list of the prominent features of the browser that Microsoft has shown off-

• Line Focus
• Grammar Tool
• Offline Dictionary

Microsoft also announced the launch of the Office 2019 suite, which has most of the features that Office 365 users were already enjoying. In fact, Office 365 itself has received some major updates, making this subscription-based service more enticing for the users. Some of the more exciting features of the tool include new proofreading, 3D graphics, and animation tools in PowerPoint, speedy lookup tools in Excel, and new ribbon looks in Word, Excel, PowerPoint, and Outlook.

Resources:

https://www.forbes.com/sites/tonybradley/2018/10/02/microsoft-unveils-cool-new-features-for-windows-10-and-office-365/#66e1f20523fe

https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/p/surface-studio-2/8SBJXM0M58T4?activetab=pivot:techspecstab

https://support.office.com/en-us/article/what-s-new-in-office-365-95c8d81d-08ba-42c1-914f-bca4603e1426