Thinking about Surface: Where should it go next?

I've been thinking about Surface, and the future of computing itself, and it got me wondering: Where will Surface go next?

Microsoft's Surface line of devices has come a long way since its initial debut back in 2012 with the Surface RT and Surface Pro. At the time, Surface was bringing to the table a somewhat new form-factor, something that hadn't really been seen before. It was a 2-in-1, a tablet that was designed to replace your laptop. While not an immediate success, Microsoft's continued work and refinement of the form-factor lead us to the Surface Pro 3, where it arguably hit the nail on the head with its design. From there, we've only had iterative updates to the Surface Pro form-factor, because it's pretty much as good as a 2-in-1 can get.

Microsoft nailed the Surface 2-in-1 design with the Surface Pro 3 — and then they started to branch out and experiment.

Since then, we've seen Microsoft expand its Surface portfolio a little bit. In 2015, the company released the Surface Book. This was a different take on the 2-in-1 form factor, coming at the idea from a different angle. Instead of being a tablet first, and a laptop second, the Surface Book was arguably a laptop first, and a tablet second. This allowed Microsoft to be a little more zealous about the kind of specifications it could slip into the device, adding discrete graphics and more powerful processors.

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