Microsoft confirms Surface and Windows event for this month — new devices and AI features expected
New Surface hardware and Windows 11 features will be announced on March 21.
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What you need to know
Microsoft has today published aspecial event webpageconfirming plans to make new product announcements on March 21. The digital event, dubbed “New Era of Work,” will take place at 9am PDT and consist of new Windows 11, Microsoft Copilot, and Surface news.
I reported earlier this week thatMicrosoft is planning to unveil new Surface Pro and Surface Laptop hardware at this event.Microsoft’s upcoming devices are expected to be significant leaps forward in performance and efficiency thanks to newIntel Core Ultra, and laterSnapdragon X Elite-based processors that will be powering these new devices. Unsurprisingly, Microsoft will brand these devices as new AI PCs.
The devices are expected to launch over the coming weeks, beginning in April for the Intel hardware, followed by the Arm hardware in June. Arm is coming to both theSurface Pro 10andSurface Laptop 6for the first time, though the company may wait to talk more about the Arm devices closer to June. Sources also say the Surface Laptop will be getting a special commercial-focused variant with a built-in CAC reader.
Confirmed by the Microsoft event page, the company will also talk about new Windows and Copilot features, possibly tied to the next-gen theneural processing unit (NPU)that will be found in these new devices.Microsoft is working on an “AI Explorer” featurethat acts as an advanced Copilot that can turn everything you do on your PC into a searchable memory using natural language.
Microsoft could also take this event as an opportunity to formally announce the next major Windows 11 update, known asWindows 11 version 24H2.
We’ll be covering the event as it happens on March 21 at 9am PDT. So keep it locked to Windows Central for all the news as it happens.
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