Microsoft has always been a software company. It's what made it the most valuable company on earth (twice), and it's what makes it so interesting that the company has been making some serious hardware for a few years now.
And when I say serious hardware, I mean it's seriously good. I'm not a Windows user, and you'd have to pry my MacBook Pro out of my cold, dead hands if you tried to make me switch, but I will freely admit: Microsoft has some serious design chops.
New Surface Devices
Take, for example, the slate of new products the company introduced yesterday, like the updated versions of the Surface Laptop, including a 15-inch model. The Surface Laptop 3, as it's called, also finally gets USB-C, which is long overdue. It's impressive, but it's not even close to the highlight of the event, at least from the standpoint of innovation.
That would be the introduction of two new dual-screen devices, the Surface Neo and the Surface Duo. It's actually not even a new concept. Microsoft worked on a similar product called Courier back in 2008, though it canceled the project two years later without a product ever being released.