Microsoft Surface Pro 5 Will Reportedly Spotlight Company's Alternative Approach, Launch During Spring Event Rumored

The highly awaited and much rumored Microsoft Surface Pro 5 will now reportedly arrive highlighting a different approach from the Microsoft. The 2-in-1 hybrid is expected to be release on the company's upcoming spring event.

According to Forbes, several analysts are anticipating the release of the latest Microsoft Surface Pro 5 during the Microsoft's yearly spring event. Moreover, there is a general belief that an update to the hybrid Surface Pro device is a great possibility. On the other hand, the next generation Surface Book is most likely to not get a launch on the same event.

For several months Microsoft Surface Pro 5 has been the center of speculations and rumors and. Predictions of the technical specifications, as well as features of the device, have been running rampant on the net. However, Microsoft, amidst all these, has been very tight-lip revealing nothing now.

According to The Verge, the Microsoft Surface Pro 5 that will ship with Kaby Lake, Intel's latest chip design for the desktop and the seventh generation of its Core processor family. Paul Thurrott who is one of many Microsoft watchers anticipating the hybrid's release has later confirmed the above information and also noted that his sources indicated that the Surface Pro 5 will retain the current power connector found on the Pro 4 and the Surface Book, as opposed to switching to USB-C.

For the alternative approach in the upcoming Microsoft Surface Pro 5, Forbes has noted that Microsoft is placing its emphasis on its cloud-based services and the Windows 10 operating system and its partners can sell far more systems than Microsoft ever could on its own. This gives Company a significant advantage in numbers and market share. It also means the Surface team has less need to focus on innovation right now just to provide its hardware with something new to sell. This approach is different from Apple, where the vast majority of its cloud-based revenue can only come from users with Apple hardware.

A minor update to the Surface range from Pro 4 to Microsoft Surface Pro 5 should be seen in the same light as the update from the 2015 MacBook Pro to the 2016 MacBook Pro and also the differing approaches to computing in 2017. Microsoft's goal with the Surface Pro 5 is to show what current hardware can do with the software-based innovations in Windows 10 and its cloud services.