Microsoft has issued invitations to an $4, to be held on May 23rd.
This isn't that unusual in and of itself: Microsoft, a global company with major consumer and
To hammer it home, $4 that there will be new hardware at this event, making it a safe bet that we're going to see some kind of new Surface device.
The safe money is on a reveal of the Surface Pro 5 tablet - which is $4.
But with such limited information, the mystery hardware could turn out to be anything: A new Surface Book, a refresh to the Surface Studio PC, or even, possibly, the long-rumored Surface Phone.
It's odd to think that Microsoft would launch another new device so soon: just a few days ago, on May 2nd, $4, a $999 competitor to the Apple MacBook. And yet, it's shaping up that way.
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The Microsoft Surface Pro 4, pictured here, was first released in the Fall of 2015.
Still, if it is the Surface Pro 5, it's not coming a moment too soon. $4, as the 18-month-old Surface Pro 4 started showing its age, and as Windows PC manufacturers released their own price-competitive Surface clones.
Finally, and this part is just a guess, but the time would be right for Microsoft to refresh the original, non-Pro Surface tablet. The $4, the current model, is exactly two years old today. And with the introduction of $4, a lightweight new version of the operating system designed to eke more performance out of less-robust hardware, a new Surface to show it off on the tablet form factor could just make sense.
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