Microsoft just gave the best 'one more thing' product surprise in years

Microsoft just surprised everyone by introducing the Surface Book: the company's vision of the ultimate laptop. It's crazy! It's like they went from making the Surface tablet, to making a laptop, and then back to making a Surface tablet again — but somehow it looks like it works.

The bigger surprise, though, is that Microsoft has finally figured out how to give a presentation with verve. The company can mostly thank VP Panos Panay for that, even if at times he came off a little like a car salesman. (At several points, Panay seemed physically strained by his need to encourage excitement for things like digital pen pressure points.) But he shined when Microsoft had something genuinely exciting to announce, and I almost forgot I was...

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