ProBeat: Microsoft will trim, not kill, Surface lineup

Finally, a 15-inch Surface. Microsoft added yet another form factor to its Surface lineup this week, and while I’m excited — this is exactly the size of Surface I’ve always wanted — I can’t help but feel there are now too many any options.

At the Canalys Channels Forum in Venice earlier this month, Canalys CEO Steve Brazier declared Microsoft would kill off its Surface business in 2019. Lenovo COO Gianfranco Lanci suggested this might happen even sooner than that, and a Dell executive hedged his bets by saying Microsoft might slow down the Surface product cycle.