Announcing the new Surface Pro

Announcing
the new Surface Pro

Surface
responds to global demand with expanded portfolio and new markets and brings
the creative power of the new Surface Pen to the world’s most powerful
productivity suite: Microsoft Office.

SHANGHAI
— May 23, 2017 — Microsoft
Corp. on Tuesday unveiled the new Surface Pro, the next generation of
the iconic product line and the most versatile laptop on the planet. The new
Surface Pro delivers the most performance and battery life in a laptop that is
this thin, light and quiet. Surface took the category it created and pushed it
a step further with the new Surface Pro by bringing up to 13.5 hours of battery
life,1 making it more than 2.5 times faster
than Surface Pro 3, and providing unmatched versatility and mobility in a
lighter, more refined design. Surface Pro is not only a powerhouse laptop, but
also a mobile creative studio with a vibrant 12.3” PixelSense™ touch display
that supports the new Surface Pen,2 the fastest pen
ever, and Surface Dial2 both on- and off-screen. Twice as
accurate as the previous version and enhanced by our PixelSense Accelerator
custom silicon, the new Surface Pen and new Surface Pro together set the
industry standard for faster, more fluid writing and drawing, and now Surface
Pen supports tilt3 for more natural shading. Inking in
applications across Windows 10 and Microsoft Office 365,2 including the new Microsoft Whiteboard app, will unlock
ways for people to use digital ink to be more creative, collaborative and
productive.

“With Surface Pro we created a new category and
challenged the status quo of the laptop,” said Panos Panay, corporate vice
president, Microsoft Devices. “With every release since we have continued to
push boundaries — redefining the ultimate laptop with Surface Book and making
the classic laptop feel fresh again with Surface Laptop. With the introduction
of the new Surface Pro we are once again advancing the category by delivering
the versatility of a powerhouse laptop and a mobile creative studio in one
thin, lightweight device.”

The
most versatile laptop

The
new Surface Pro has been redesigned from the inside out to give people more
performance and 50 percent more battery life than the Surface Pro 4. Everything
has been streamlined and refined — from softer, rounded edges to cameras built
to fade into the bezel. At just 8.5mm thin and starting at 1.69 pounds4 the
new Surface Pro is lighter than the bag it will be carried in, and packs the
power of a 7th generation Intel® Core™ processor into a new
fanless,5 whisper-quiet design.

The
new Surface Pro Signature Type Cover delivers a high-quality scissor mechanism
and 1.3 mm of key travel for faster and more accurate typing. A full-size glass
trackpad with five-finger multi-touch capabilities allows for ultimate
precision, and the entire keyboard is wrapped in soft yet durable Alcantara® material,
creating a comfortable palm rest and beautiful aesthetic.

The
new Surface Pro will also be available with LTE Advanced later this year to
provide even greater mobility to let people work, collaborate and create from
anywhere.

A
mobile creative studio

The
Surface Pro takes the immersive experience of creating on Surface Studio and
brings it to life in a highly portable form factor. With a new hinge that
adjusts to 165 degrees, people can now put Surface Pro into Studio Mode,
creating the optimal position to write or sketch. The high-resolution 12.3”
PixelSense™ Display is engineered to work with the new Surface Pen, the fastest
digital pen ever, to deliver an amazing inking experience. When used with the
new Surface Pro, the new Surface Pen is twice as responsive as the previous
version with 4,096 levels of
pressure sensitivity for increased accuracy and responsiveness. New tilt
functionality detects the angle of the Surface Pen to enable more natural
shading. The Surface Dial also works on-screen with the new Surface Pro,
unlocking a set of unique experiences pioneered by Surface Studio. Placing Dial
on the screen brings up app-specific digital tools, allowing people to quickly
access shortcuts and move seamlessly through their workflow.

           
Starting at $799 USD, the new Surface Pro allows people to customize their
experiences with an array of colorful options for the new Surface Pro Signature
Type Cover, the new Surface Pen and the Microsoft Surface Arc Mouse.2 Each
comes in rich tone-on-tone colors to match your personal style: Platinum,
Burgundy and Cobalt Blue.

The
new Surface Pro will launch on June 15, 2017, in 25 markets including
Australia, Austria, Belgium, Canada, China, Denmark, Finland, France, Germany,
Hong Kong, Ireland, Italy, Korea, Luxembourg, the Netherlands, New Zealand,
Norway, Poland, Portugal, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, Taiwan, the United Kingdom
and the United States. Preorder for the new Surface Pro and Surface Pro
Signature Type Cover begins later today in select markets at Microsoft
Store, microsoft.com, BestBuy.com and
JD.com where available. The new Surface Pen will be available in the coming
weeks.

Microsoft
Store is also offering custom device fittings to help
people find the Surface that’s right for them. Knowledgeable associates are
committed to helping people match their needs to the right Surface, then set it
up and assist with customization, including the applications people use every
day like Office.2

Inking
comes to life in Microsoft Office 365 and the new Microsoft Whiteboard

With
the new Surface Pro and Surface Pen, digital inking comes to life for artists
and inspires creativity worldwide. But people use pens not just to sketch or
paint, but also to be productive — write and share comments in documents, notes
in notebooks, and sketches on whiteboards. We are making the creative power of
the new Surface Pen available in the world’s most powerful productivity suite:
Microsoft Office.

New
inking features in Microsoft Word, Excel and PowerPoint include a customizable
gallery of your favorite pens, pencils and highlighters that roam with you as a
personalized setting across Office apps and devices, along with support for
tilt and shading with the new Surface Pen. These capabilities will begin to
release to Office 365 subscribers in June, including the more than 100 million
monthly active commercial users and 26 million consumer subscribers.

Additional
inking experiences will continue to roll out in the future, including the new
Microsoft Whiteboard app, which offers a limitless canvas for creativity and
collaboration with simultaneous inking between multiple people across the
world. With Microsoft Whiteboard, people will be able to collaborate on ideas
and projects across an expanded set of ink-enabled Windows 10 devices later
this year, with exclusive capabilities for Office 365 subscribers.

Surface
Studio comes to new markets

Surface
Studio, first introduced in October 2016, is a new class of device built to
transform from a workstation into a powerful digital canvas, unlocking a more
natural and immersive way to create on the thinnest LCD monitor ever built.6 Surface
Studio will launch in Austria, China, Denmark, Finland, France, Germany, Hong
Kong, the Netherlands, Norway, Sweden, Switzerland and the United Kingdom.
Surface Studio will be available for preorder starting today at microsoft.com and
select third-party retailers, and will begin shipping in these markets on June
15, 2017.

Microsoft
(Nasdaq “MSFT” @microsoft) is the leading platform and productivity company for
the mobile-first, cloud-first world, and its mission is to empower every person
and every organization on the planet to achieve more.

1 Up to 13.5 hours for video
playback. Testing conducted by Microsoft in April 2017 using preproduction
Intel Core i5, 256GB, 8 GB RAM device. Testing consisted of full battery
discharge during video playback. All settings were default except: Wi-Fi was
associated with a network and Auto-Brightness disabled. Battery life varies
significantly with settings, usage and other factors.

2 Sold separately

3 Surface Pen tilt functionality is
currently available with the new Surface Pro.

4 Core m3 version

5 Core m3 and Core i5 versions

6 Average cross-section thickness
across entire display