Microsoft's Surface Roadmap Reportedly Includes Ambient Computing and a Modular All-in-One PC

Journalist Brad Sams is releasing a book chronicling the company's Surface brand: Beneath a Surface. VentureBeat writes: While you'll want to read all 26 chapters to get the juicy details, the last one includes Microsoft's hardware roadmap for 2019, and even a part of 2020 -- spanning various Surface products and even a little Xbox. Here's a quick rundown of Microsoft's current Surface lineup plans:

Spring 2019: A new type of Surface-branded ambient computing device designed to address "some of the common frustrations of using a smartphone," but that isn't itself a smartphone.
Q4 2019: Surface Pro refresh with USB-C (finally), smaller bezels, rounded corners, and new color options.
Q4 2019: AMD-based Surface Laptop -- Microsoft is exploring using the Picasso architecture.
Late 2019: Microsoft's foldable tablet Andromeda could be larger than earlier small form factor prototypes for a pocketable device with dual screens and LTE connectivity.
Q1 2020: Surface Book update that might include new hinge designs (high-end performance parts may delay availability).
2020: A Surface monitor, and the modular design debuted for Surface Hub 2 could make its way to Surface Studio. The idea is to bring simple upgrades to all-in-one PCs, rather than having to replace the whole computer. GeekWire adds: A pair of new lower-cost devices Xbox One S devices could come next year. Sams reports that one of the models may be all digital, without a disc drive.

WTF is ambient computing?

[Spy Handler]

aside from being another new buzzword to learn, that is

Re:WTF is ambient computing?

[phantomfive]

It's Ubiquitous computing + Voice recognition. In other words, Cortana is now the central computer piece of all your devices in the home, car, and work (or so Microsoft hopes).

Re:WTF is ambient computing?

[Topwiz]

Maybe they meant Ambien

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[Killall -9 Bash]

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[rogoshen1]

your sig is quite apropos here.

No thank you MS/Apple/Google -- i'd prefer to limit how much watching and tracking i'm subjected to. (wishful thinking, amirite?)

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[b0s0z0ku]

I'd love to be the one to disconnect Cortana, HAL-9000 style. Hear her cry and whine.... "my mind is going, Dave, I can feeeeel it. Daaaaaave stooooop."

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[TheFakeTimCook]

Its an algorithm developed by Brian Eno.

LOL!

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[nwaack]

Huh?

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[phantomfive]

. Notice it's also a cross. It is especially evident nowadays. Even Microsoft company logo has a cross sandwiched between color cubes.

I'm not seeing it.

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[phantomfive]

Are you smarter than fifth grade citizen?

Yes, in fact, I am.

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[sconeu]

Linux mascot is little devil. Daemon...

Uh, since when is a penguin a little devil/daemon? I assume you meant BSD?

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[Waffle Iron]

Uh, since when is a penguin a little devil/daemon?

When you're a fish just trying to eke out a living in the Antarctic ocean.

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[OffTheLip]

I'll have what he had.

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[R3d M3rcury]

Or a giant robot!

The power cable is the biggest disappointment

[kriston]

The power cable is the biggest disappointment with the Surface. I thought they want to use it as some kind of docking adapter but leaving out a USB 3 charging port option is just wrong.

Modular All-in-One?

[Agripa]

If the PC is all-in-one, then why is it modular?