Microsoft announces new hardware and updates to Windows 10

Microsoft announced at an event in New York overnight, new hardware and an update to Surface Book.  The biggest announcement was a new product called Surface Studio designed for the creative market. The Surface Studio is designed to take on Apple's iMac and will be available for pre-order from today at $2,999 US . It has a tiltable display, an iCore 7 processor and 2TB of storage. Windows 10 is getting a creator edition update that will be released in early next year.

Also announced at the event was the availability of Hololens. It has been released today for  an expensive $3,000 US. However other VR headsets will be available next year.


For all the highlights of what happened at Microsoft's event see this article on the verge.

Microsoft Surface Studio (Image from microsoft.com)




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