Microsoft have recently held an event in New York where it unveiled a laptop, a tablet, three Lumia smartphones and a fitness brand – all running Windows 10 – alongside a slew of alternative products. They also announced new apps for Windows 10, including Box, Facebook, Instagram, Flipagram, Candy Crush Soda Saga and Uber. All of these apps will be available to download on the new devices. “Microsoft’s now working to showcase that its building on its ecosystem based on Windows 10,” says Susan Schreiner, an analyst at C4 Trends. “They’re really trying to unify their pods around Windows 10, and that seems to be in line with Nadella’s vision.”

2. Microsoft have recently held an event in New York where it unveiled a laptop, a
tablet, three Lumia smartphones and a fitness brand – all running Windows 10 –
alongside a slew of alternative products.
They also announced new apps for Windows 10, including Box, Facebook,
Instagram, Flipagram, Candy Crush Soda Saga and Uber. All of these apps will
be available to download on the new devices.
“Microsoft’s now working to showcase that its building on its ecosystem based on
Windows 10,” says Susan Schreiner, an analyst at C4 Trends.
“They’re really trying to unify their pods around Windows 10, and that seems to
be in line with Nadella’s vision.”
What’s this all about?

3. Introducing the Surface Book
Possibly the most exciting and definitely the most controversial offering
is a direct challenge to Apple’s MacBook… the Surface Book (yes,
they couldn’t even come up with their own name!!), a high end
touchscreen laptop aimed at the high quality connoisseur of the
market.
The Surface Book moves the Microsoft Surface range even closer to a
laptop than the tablet/keyboard hybrid of three generations, although it
is still detachable from its keyboard dock and features a touch screen
– a clear distinction (an advantage? You decide!) over the MacxBook.

4. Design & specification
The design and build quality will now look oddly familiar to the Apple
devices. The Surface Book’s main body is magnesium for maximum
portability (weighing a mere 1.5kg) and features an innovative hinge
mechanism which allows the device to be laptop first, a “clipboard and
stylus” style tablet, or a detachable tablet, as needed.
The Surface Book will have a sixth generation Intel Core i5 or i7
processor, up to 16GB of memory, a multi touch PixelSense screen
and a Surface Pen. A discrete graphics chip is offered as an option.
Microsoft promises the Book will have up to 12 hours of battery life.
Previous generations of the Surface were originally pitched by
Microsoft as the “laptop that could replace your tablet”… Mission
accomplished.

5. So what now?
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