The future of Surface is incredibly unclear with these new devices 

The Surface Book was such a brilliant concept, Microsoft doesn't handle it's products with care at all...

Considering that the planning, writing, and design for these keynotes starts months and months before the event, I don’t think Panay announcing that he’s leaving less than a week ago affected what they were planning to talk about. It’s not like they just suddenly dropped all future plans and are wandering aimlessly days after he left lol

I always find it interesting how vastly different Microsoft and Apple treat their products and their visions of the future.

It's not all that unclear to those of us who have been playing the tech game long enough. Microsoft is a very predictable company. They're going to slowly kill/abandon the Surface line. They're going to focus more and more on putting people's desktops in the cloud. If they do continue to release their own hardware in the coming years, it will be less powerful and more reliant on cloud resources. Which they will be more than happy to charge you a recurring subscription fee for. That's where all this is going.

Sad to see Panos leaving. I'll miss his incredibly emotional and passionate presentations of Surface products.

I own a first generation surface book and it's a great device. But it started giving me problems with the hinge. It was a nightmare! Even worse, I can't update the surface book to windows 11 due to the CPU not being compatible. By 2025 it's going to be obsolete due to the end of windows 10. I would not be buying a surface product for a while. The surface laptop studio grabs my attention but I have a feeling they're going to toss it to a side eventually.

Decisions on product planning span years. Has anyone thought Microsoft decided to phase out the Surface and handheld lines (refocusing that expenditure on A.I. related products) thus giving Panos the motivation to plan for a future outside Microsoft? Surface is an expensive project with very small returns.

Surface Pro is the most popular form factor among all Surface devices. But no new model for Surface Pro this year, not even a refresh, seriously? I have no idea what Microsoft is thinking.

It is tough, I hope they'll turn it around and keep Surface alive, but if they don't then eventually we'll have to find alternatives... Being a loyal Surface user since SP3, I certainly hope for the better. But even the Surface Studio hasn't got a proper upgrade since many years ago, and not sure if getting Surface Studio 2+ is a good idea at the moment

I have the original surface laptop studio. The problem I had with it is not having a usb A. The slim pen 2 doesn't seem to be working very well with this one. The battery life they claimed was not true at all. But that's a great machine with versatile use.

Panos Panay is the best product presenter since Steve Jobs. He makes you feel connected to technology as an extension of you.

Microsoft is not even spending enough attention on Windows nowadays, which is arguably one of the main reasons for the existence of the Surface product line - to provide a benchmark Windows experience.

At this point I'd have a hard time ever spending real money on a Microsoft expensive piece of hardware. I loved the surface line up because it focused on touch and stylist devices. And since Apple doesn't offer anything with touch on a desktop level I'm not even looking at those products. But Microsoft just is charging too much and you can now find better clones from Lenovo in many cases to on the surface Pro. They have not done a good job with arm chips, they removed the SD card and the headphone jack from their Surface Pro devices. They got rid of the surface book and replaced it with a fairly redundant laptop studio go. They didn't support the surface duo 2. giving it only one OS update. I think the only way I would buy a surface device at this point would be if I saw a great deal on a used Surface go or something. But full price MSRP at launch¿ For Ultrabooks with middling performance and mediocre battery and no SD card or headphone jack support? No thank you

I adore what microsoft is doing. Yea, they have to do AI. But they beefed up their tablet-laptop SLS2 to be a workhorse. When it's worth doing so, they'll upgrade the pro lineup. Boom: tablet-laptop, laptop-tablet, and they still have their outright laptops. They have a device for any use, they've found their niche. Meanwhile, they're doing the whole AI thing ahead of the rest of the industry. It works!

Damn, Microsoft had a keynote event and no one on BRvid spoke about it. It’s like Google’s keynote event. Only attended by the stakeholders of these companies like employees and shareholders…

The only use I see copilot being useful is in Microsoft Teams, automatically taking notes, actions. Now that is useful

About the trackpad, they should have made it much bigger. They have a lot of room inside that machine for a bigger touchpad, and where is my 16-inch version? Surface Laptop Studio should have a performance base version with 16-inch 3000x2000 with 120Hz or 165Hz with Gsync, and a much bigger battery (99Whr instead of 56Whr like normal version), Intel Core i9-13900H, RTX 4070 / RTX 4000 Ada, 64GB RAM and 2TB of SSD. I dont think people is gonna mind the higher price if there is a much thoughtful update.

This surface laptop studio 2 is what I've been waiting for for a long time and... I'm quite disappointed. For the price of the only competitive model, which is the maxed out one, I can buy a MacBook pro AND an iPad with pencil. I'm not an apple user, I'm not a fan of anyone, and I always used windows and Linux, but at this point it seems to me that apple wins this and the near future rounds

Let's just pump the brakes on whether AI will do anything for us. As for MSFT's hardware attempts, there are other hardware partners out there, so it's no big deal.

Now for me my problem with @Microsoft and windows is I don't know what they are doing there, as an OS company they are not behaving as one they are not putting in enough effort in their OS and by the time they realize it might be too late.

If I were to give a solution as a Microsoft surface, Executive, I’ve develop a new windows, specifically for surface computers, and will make it more fancy and optimized for surface devices. New user interface, which will be only available for surface computers.

I feel Microsoft surface lineup. All they need is a great showmanship and customer service.

BRvid reviews need to understand that graphics on laptops isn't just for gaming. There is a huge industry of engineers that need graphics for 3d intensive work. That said, the surface laptops are always too expensive compared to the competition and are more for bosses looking cool while those who do the work get equivalent gaming laptops that are as powerful for 30% less the cost and have to suffer the hideous gaming centric design.

Yeah i think its just a sign of the times, the computer hardware industry, espically for tablets and laptops, is basically non existant at the moment. Microsoft will be acutely aware of this. I mean mac sales are down a lot too. People just don't need new versions of these devices at the moment and the upgrade cycles are a much longer. I think we are goin to see this hit smartphone sales soon too. We have seen it to a small extent already but i think we are going to see bit drops in sales soon. We need the prices to fall on these devices and a lot more innovation happening across the industry. All devices r basically the same, just look at the iphone, they just change the colours now and thats it.

The whole Microsoft Device Division is a Confusion - 1) They just introduced Surface Duo & then shot down it without giving another try 2) Without any reason Surface Book, Surfave Studio, Surface Headphone is gone 3) No new Surface Keyboard / Mouse 4) Current Surface Line Up Name is too long, not easy & confusing also I dont know why Microsoft is neglecting Surface but it will fail just because for them. Of other company get surface devices they would rule the world, but as it’s Microsoft so they are killing this

I wish Microsoft didn't close down their Microsoft Stores, as it was a good place for an average Joe like me to go and check out the new Microsoft products, and maybe even purchase them. I miss my Microsoft Surface Pro 4, but I had to dispose of it because the battery was swelling up.

it hasnt been front and center like ai pictures and image reconstruction, but ai seems to be a star player when it comes to audio as well. I mean weve seen the hilariousness youtube videos where top actors and politician voices get the ai treatment (The presidents playing games on discord is my fav) but ai has been helping with speech recognition and translation as well. I have used a few on test videos and it required a pre-process time like video encoding, but using my RTX (It also supported the vega gpu on my ryzen 5 but quite a bit slower) card to great effect. I do wish the public facing part of this research and testing was a bit more timely in updates as the tools get quite old. In the end, MS is not wrong that having an ai chip, even a simple one, in out computers in the fitire could very much be an every day item. It is NOT the type of AI like we see in the movies, they are not personal assistance. These help with the reconstruction of audio and video.

How does Microsoft plan to pay for and buy all the hardware for all the compute that copilot for consumers will need?

Microsoft biggest issue is the pricing. In the age of Android and iOS , Microsoft has to focus on bringing the cost down first to create a market. They think they are equal to iOS and Android devices but that is not just true.

If the AI is so smart it should disable the automatic windows update

When are they going to optimise Windows for ARM processors and touch based UI systems ?

You know, it really bugs me how Microsoft has these fantastic ideas and acquires great companies like Skype, but then they drop the ball when it comes to developing or improving the products or the companies. I mean, their laptops are pretty impressive, but they don't seem to make a big impact in the business world. For instance, in my company, we switched to Apple computers since the M1 chip came out because they include all the essential office and basic apps right out of the box. And seriously, why doesn't Microsoft bundle something like MS Office for free with their laptops? It's like they want people and companies to switch to their products, but they miss this no-brainer opportunity to provide some consumer software with the laptops and computers they sell. Don't you think?

Every consumer brand from Microsoft to Apple to Samsung to Ducati or BMW etc is in ‘profit protection’ mode. No big new launches, nothing early in the product cycle, just evolutionary updates at minimal cost & just enough to generate incremental price rises. Global recession, baby!

2023 was always gonna be a slow year for Surface with no big update from Intel and Qualcomm's delay. The next Surface Pro in 2024 will be make or break IMO. Can they respond to Apple's M series

I love my surface laptop ..since 2015 and running like new

I was hoping to see a successor to the Surface Headphones 2. Pretty disappointed. And the prices of these new surface devices are a joke also. AI is largely hype at this point. Why would I pay 1000€ extra for it? edit: Let me correct. I'm really disappointed. MS is so large, they could easily drive innovation. In fact, I expect them to spend at least some of their budget on experiments. This just isn't it. AI at this point just feels like the next big corporate term that is used within these giant orgs to pretend like they are innovating. Both the people that work there to their bosses and shareholders as well as to the customers. Well, we'll see.. The sell just isn't there.

I really like Panos. Sad to see him leave MSFT.

Surface was the only remotely-interesting thing from MS and now it's no longer interesting. They are truly IBM.

I have the sls first gen, constantly had issues and had to replace 4 times, absolutely ridiculous. Way overpriced too

Copilot, they should’ve just brought back the paper clip

What's good on microsoft today is animation and motion graphic on their presentation

all i want is just an ai creator app. i want to give instructions and it builds. for an app that is only necessary to describe the ui, and the copilot takes over the code. making what you want and automatically optimizing things in the background. but i want something that is not limited as microsoft designer... i want to have full control over what the ai does. and integration. right now it is too limited. everything feels like a gimmick that will take 10 years to get useful...

Looks very good imo. Will wait the reviews to come out before buying it. My 5 years old Razer Blade is giving up already hahahah

I love competition! We need powerful ARMed CPU windows laptops now.

The pricing for the Surface laptop studio 2 is atrocious.

Panos Panay either needs to start his own company or team up with OpenAI to start a new company. Because the way I see it, Microsoft has no vision for the future of computers...anymore.

"nowhere near as powerful." I mean the difference between a core i3 and a core i5 is not that significant. Obviously at the entry level there's a big difference but that's a little overstated.

I never found a touchpad better than Apple’s mac book. Lets see if this one get even close enough

man, I wished they reduced the screen bezel. I currently have have a dell xps 15 (2018) still working strong.

Surface Laptop Studio 2 looked good until I realised it had a 58 Wh battery.

I can't believe they're still dragging their feet with X86. If Microsoft invested some serious RnD into producing a Surface ARM processor, they could even license it to other laptop manufacturers. They are lagging behind Apple severely on battery optimization and it's becoming increasingly difficult to recommend them for portable computing.

I would consider purchasing the Surface Laptop Studio 2 if Microsoft would replace their inferior stylus with licensed Wacom EMR stylus tech like Samsung uses with their SPen enabled devices.

The surface laptop studio is like that 1st picture of the IPhone in the legendary IPhone premiere. It kind of sad. Microsoft seems to lose interest in very good brands or develops ridiculous tech.

I have to go to the registry to disable palm rejection so I can play games without trackpad latency and so I can use trackpad and keyboard simultaneously on the HPx360.

I wish they would just drop the numerical suffix from their product lines because their naming scheme is already confusing without because insisted on using the word "Surface" in every single portable product line!

If Microsoft was Google they would have killed Surface already 😂

Microsoft will surely fail in not so distant future, only adding AI products to everything as an upgrade, is not much of an upgrade because of low usage values of AI products especially in market like India. They would be better off use AI themselves and learn features to include and shortcomings to remove from their product codes to provide better upgrades. 😂

1:32 Microsoft didn't add pen charging. That was on the original.

Call me crazy, but I think this AI push has the potential to come back to bite MS in a large way. We're seeing lawsuits from authors for training these datasets on their work without permission, and I think it's very reasonable for a court to side with them on it. Why would anyone trust that they are in the clear to use content generated by an AI if the content it is trained on was not cleared for use? And acquiring permission retroactively on that dataset seems impossible for the kind of scale we're talking, since you're not only dealing with massive amounts of books in the dataset, but also forum posts, assorted scraped webpages, etc. It's possible the courts don't side with authors, but it's crazy to me that massive companies are jumping this deep into this without fully knowing the legal ramifications yet.

I guess they can start with an android phone with copilot built in

Have they finally put the 5G modem into the x86_64 Surface Pro?

Microsoft makes way more interesting products then apple, glad i switched from Apple to Microsoft👌🥂

There’s too many options lol I just want a surface pro 10

Why is Panos leaving? Anyone know the reason? He was great.

We will transition from Windows on device to Windows on the cloud. Where you open your phone or your tablet and you run Windows 11 and Office for the low price of 200 euros per month. I realy love the convinience of having to cary my phone with a dongle around. But too many subsriptions!

I bought the original surface book. Screen cracked, they replaced it. Screen cracked again, out of warranty. Bought a surface laptop 3. Screen cracked, replaced, screen cracked again, replaced again (kindly out of warranty), now my 3rd one has cracked. I am very careful with my devices, never had a scratch on any of them. Just ridiculous.

Panos was the best in his career

Microsoft updates surface to 13 gen after Intel anounced next gen chips. 😅😅😅😅

The sad new is Mr Parney resignation. He is such a fantastic speaker. Best ever.

That haptic trackpad was in the original laptop studio. You guys really didn't bother to fact check

God “desires all men to be saved and to come to the knowledge of the truth” (1 Timothy 2:4).

It's obvious Surface is basically dead. No upgrades besides the almost-free chip updates, Panos gone, and 90% of the event talking about non-Surface?!

So will Surface products survive without him?

Are the usb-c thunderbolt or just usb-c?

This is their apple 1996 moment where they cut back on half arsed products and nail just a few

RIP Surface Book, and now maybe Surface Pro 😢

They should just bring back the paper clip 😅

Great video!!

The greatest mistake ms made was to kill windows phone. Now copilot would be stuck in the business world. It would also compete with every other A.I out there.

sad that there is no new surface pro

"the future of Windows" lmao ya, Microsoft is definitely considering cancelling Windows 🙄

I have no idea what they're doing anymore. They've given up but also still keep going

Microsoft also does its self bad when it overprices the surface line

cant believe we are using the word legacy for USB A

No new Surface Pro 😢

good bye surface pro, for ever, that is what i felt on the presentation

Wait did the original surface studio book had a full size SD card reader and the current one went to a micro SD one?? What a joke...

What about Surface Pro 10?

Surface presentation isn't not that great in future microsoft will definitely lose surface market if they didn't come up with proper surface team.

What are the prices?

Can MS fix the lag in windows also dude all those updates are slow as hell with multiple reboots still feels like win95

Glad I move to Linux

So no new surface laptop 6 but they do a surface laptop go 3…

Microsoft: we finally caught up with apple's 10 year old trackpad tech :D

Just wait 9 months and all will be revealed

RIP Surface.

in tablet mode the screen should be flush with the body of the laptop

Just sell surface studio display separately. Pro display xdr aint got shi# on it.

Now he’s leaving. Should just buy Lenovo thinkpad it back.

Honestly, I didnt like the Panos Panay Era. I hope Microsoft gets a fresh look