Somewhere in Redmond, Microsoft’s Surface team will have been watching the keynote from Apple’s Worldwide Developer Conference and decided that Tim Cook and his team had validated Microsoft's approach to the bleeding edge of technology. Ewan SpenceThe obvious competitor to the Surface Pro machines is the iPad Pro. No doubt Microsoft’s manufacturing partners are already hard at work on the next-generation machines while Apple has been catching up. Microsoft’s Surface Pro and Surface Book machines have little to fear from the moribund MacBook line-up, and the recently announced Surface Laptop can stand up and easily fight the MacBook. Lurking in the bottom of every Surface machine (and every Windows 10 installation is Cortana - Microsoft’s voice powered digital assistant.

Source: Forbes June 06, 2017 22:18 UTC