New Surface hardware is likely to surface at Microsoft’s September 22 event

Home windows 11 is popping out on October 5, however it’s not the one factor Microsoft has in retailer this fall. The corporate shall be livestreaming an occasion at 11 am Japanese on September 22, the place it guarantees to “speak about gadgets and Home windows 11.” Microsoft wasn’t particular about what sorts of gadgets it plans to disclose, however the looping video on the occasion web site is of a Floor pill, so it isn’t arduous to guess. (Earlier than you get too excited, it appears like a Floor Professional X, not a preview of some unannounced product.)

With out extra specifics on the sorts of {hardware} Microsoft intends to concentrate on, all we will do is speculate. Present rumors recommend that the Floor Duo 2 Android cellphone or the growing older Floor E book 3 are doubtless candidates, however there are newer processors out there that may be appropriate for the whole lot from the Floor Professional to the Floor Studio, so refreshes for just about the whole lot might be on the desk (the Intel model of the Floor Professional is means overdue for a {hardware} redesign, however we might not less than prefer to see the Eleventh-generation Intel Core CPUs from the Floor Professional 7+ come to a Floor Professional gadget that common individuals can simply purchase).

The occasion shall be distant and livestreamed from Microsoft’s web site, because it was for its Home windows 11 occasion a few months in the past. This has turn out to be the norm for tech product bulletins within the pandemic period, together with Apple’s and Google’s, however the Home windows 11 livestream was loads much less dependable than Apple’s or Google’s sometimes are; hopefully Microsoft has smoothed out its technical wrinkles within the intervening months.