Microsoft unveils Surface laptops to fulfill ‘PC for every single person’ vision

It’s October, which for Microsoft means new Surface devices. Microsoft today unveiled the Surface Laptop Go with a 12.4-inch touchscreen for $550, its cheapest and lightest (2.45lbs) laptop yet. The company also updated the Surface Pro X with SQ2 — Microsoft’s second-generation custom ARM chip co-engineered with Qualcomm — for $1,500. Both are available for preorder today and ship on October 13.

Those are the highlights. But a single sentence in Microsoft’s announcement stood out to us. “What started as a vision for a PC in every single home has now evolved to the need for a PC for every single person,” Panos Panay, head of engineering for all of Microsoft’s devices, said in press briefing. For decades, Bill Gates’ vision was “A computer on every desk, and in every home, running Microsoft software.” That’s why even in 2020, Windows 10 is running on 1 billion devices.