Microsoft held a media occasion in New York City this morning. The firm used the event to point out off two new laptops from its house-made Surface line in addition to a slew of AI-powered enhancements coming to Windows 11 later this month. The hour-long presentation was not livestreamed, however we had been there to listen to the bulletins, watch the demos, and go hands-on with the brand new gadgets. Highlights are beneath.

The Surface {hardware} introduced in the present day is at the moment available for preorder at Microsoft.com and can formally go on sale beginning October 3.

Copilot Gets Injected Everywhere

Copilot, Microsoft’s new AI-powered assistant that was announced earlier this year, is getting absolutely baked into Windows. Think of it as a facet panel you’ll be able to carry up in virtually any a part of Windows 11, even within the Edge browser. Its objective is to assist with mundane on a regular basis duties. For instance, you’ll be able to copy and paste textual content into an extended e mail and Copilot will neatly manage all the data in a manner that’s extra simply digestible. You can snip a picture and Copilot will routinely acknowledge the motion, after which ask in order for you it to investigate the picture. Once it has, it provides you with choices for what you are able to do with the picture subsequent.

You can use Copilot to search out flight data in your cellphone for an upcoming journey, compose texts based mostly on context, and plenty of different search- and productivity-related duties. It’ll be accessible through the Windows desktop as a stand-alone app, but in addition inside Microsoft 365 and in Microsoft Edge. The new characteristic will start to roll out as a part of the subsequent Windows 11 replace, which shall be launched on September 26.

Want to make use of Bing to buy stuff? Microsoft says the Shopping tab will even get the Copilot therapy, and you’ll discuss to the assistant to get assist discovering what you need to purchase. Copilot will information you thru a collection of questions so it could actually higher perceive what you’re in search of and present related buying suggestions, together with opinions on merchandise and execs and cons. It shall be out there this fall.

Copilot has some businessy capabilities too. The AI assistant can comb by means of your most up-to-date emails, chats, information, and previous conferences to collate any vital data contained inside these issues. It may also summarize unread messages, draft replies to chats and emails, and create occasions based mostly on the guardrails you set. However, it is going to solely be out there for enterprise clients beginning November 1.

Surface Laptop Studio 2

It’s been two years for the reason that launch of the first-gen Surface Laptop Studio  and there’s now a second-generation mannequin of probably the most performance-minded Surface pocket book. Like its predecessor, it comes with a 14.4-inch touchscreen show with a refresh fee of as much as a 120 Hz, and a dual-hinge mounting system (embedded into the middle behind the show and base) that means that you can alter the display screen in numerous angles. There’s a Laptop mode for full entry to the keyboard and touchpad; Stage mode, the place you’ll be able to transfer the show towards you and deprioritize the keyboard for taking part in video games and watching films; and Studio mode for drawing and writing as you’d on a pill.