Brad Sams

The Surface brand is full of products that tried something different. The classic Pro put a different spin on a tablet, the Studio with a twist on the desktop, and then there is the Duo, the two-screen foldable that is Surface in name but it does not run Windows. When I took a look last…

Several years ago, Microsoft took to the stage in New York City and unveiled the Surface Book, a device that was the pinnacle of Surface. It was a laptop, a tablet, a do-all, be-all device that the company hoped would set the brand apart as being ambitious but also establish that it was able to…

If there is one device that defines the Surface brand, it’s the Pro. The hardware is the backbone of the lineup and it is the best-selling Surface to date but the last couple of revisions have been modest, to put it lightly. But the Pro 8 is finally answering the calls that have been growing…

Today, Microsoft is unveiling its refreshed lineup that includes updating most of the products in its lineup. But the company is not only refreshing hardware, they are announcing an entirely new product – the Surface Laptop Studio. The Surface Laptop Studio is the child of mixing the Surface Laptop, Surface Pro, and Surface Studio into…

For fans of Surface, today is a good day. Microsoft has announced a significant refresh to its lineup that includes a brand-new laptop called the Laptop Studio as well as a refresh to many of its products that includes the Surface Pro 8, Duo 2, and the entry-level Go 3. The refresh across the lineup…

Earlier this year, Microsoft announced Windows 11 with a refreshed interface, new widgets, and an updated store. But to run the new software, Microsoft moved the baseline specs up significantly from what is required to run Windows 10, and today, the company is sharing the launch plans for the OS. Microsoft has announced that Windows…

Back in June, when Microsoft announced Windows 11, the company received praise for the interface and scorn for the lack of clarity about the hardware that could run the OS. Generally speaking, to run Windows 11, you need a device with an 8th gen Intel chipset or newer or from AMD, a Zen 2 chip…

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Microsoft’s Office 365 suite is the crown jewel of Software-as-a-Service. The productivity suite was launched a decade ago and now has more than 300 million paid commercial seats and today, the company is announcing a price increase for many of the tiers of the service. During the past decade, Microsoft has improved the suite by…

Microsoft and Rubrik are announcing today an agreement that will likely shakeup the industry. Rubrik, a company that provides data protection, ransomware, and backup solution has entered into an agreement with the Redmond tech giant that involves equity investment. The reason that this is a significant arrangement is that with its cloud, Microsoft uses a…

Microsoft has released a new build of Windows 11 and with this release, the company is pushing out updates for many of the in-box apps. Updated with this release are the Snipping Tool, Calculator, Mail, and Calendar. There are actually two releases today, one for the beta channel and the other for the dev channel….

If you based your expectations on the month of July about what types of companies Microsoft was looking to acquire, you could be forgiven if you believed they were only hunting for security-focused entities. After all, Microsoft did buy two different firms in recent weeks but today they are announcing that they have acquired another…