Microsoft Surface Event Set for October 12

After releasing that Windows 11 2022 update this week, Microsoft today scheduled an event on October 12th to introduce new Surface devices. The invite just says ‘Save the date’ and the company says that ‘watch live to see what’s next’ along with the time and date. It also has colours of the Windows 11 wallpaper.

In last year’s Surface event, the company introduced the Surface Duo 2 and Surface Laptop Studio. This year, the company is expected to introduce an upgrade to the Surface Pro, Surface Laptop, and the Surface Studio.

The Surface Pro 9 is said to come in two models 12th Gen U-series Intel i5 and i7 CPUs and the Microsoft SQ3, which is based on the Arm-based Snapdragon 8cx Gen 3 processor. It is expected to come with 256GB to 1TB SSD storage and up to 16GB RAM. Based on rumours, it will get new Sapphire (blue) and Forrest (green) colours, in addition to the usual Graphite and Platinum.

The Surface Laptop 5 is expected to get a new Intel 12th-gen upgrade. The Surface Studio 3 should also get the new Intel 12th SoC and NVIDIA GPUs. Microsoft is also expected to upgrade the Surface Earbuds, and type cover accessories.

The Microsoft Surface event on Wednesday, October 12th starts at 10am ET (7:30 PM IST), and the company will offer live stream as usual.