Microsoft’s Surface Laptop Designed For Educational Purposes Using Windows 10 S

Microsoft has made it perfectly clear what each one of its Surface machines is meant to accomplish. Microsoft's Surface Pro, a tablet that can replace a notebook. The Surface Book is the notebook that can replace the tablet and the Surface Studio is a desktop PC that can turn your office into a creative studio.

According to The Verge, Microsoft's Surface Laptop is obviously its newest halo product; this time for the traditional notebook market. The company has raised more questions than answers by introducing it along with the education-focused Windows 10 S.

Windows 10 S serves an obvious and timely purpose, it's a version of Windows 10 that Microsoft can position as the educational alternative to Google's lightweight Chromebook platform. Working with its partner OEMs, Microsoft can now offer solutions that combine extremely low-cost hardware with a version of Windows 1o that's easier to manage, starts up faster, and comes bundled with other software like Minecraft: Education Edition and Office 365 for Education.

Microsoft' Surface Laptop is in line with the face of that strategy. It's certainly not an inexpensive machine, with a starting price of $999 that tops out at $2,199, a high-end notebook territory. By this, it looks like a direct competitor against Apple's MacBook and MacBook Pro, not mentioning Microsoft's own Surface Book.

According to Fox News, Microsoft's Surface Laptop is not a machine that schools are going to purchase in bulk to build into computers-on-wheels (COWs) and cart from classroom to classroom. School IT administrators aren't likely to hand them over students, who won't care about staining Alcantara fabric lining the keyboard deck, or cracking 13.5-inch PixelSense 3:2 display.

Microsoft's Surface Laptop was designed for Windows 10 S, an operating system the company own that offers less functionality in the name of better security and easier administration; not enhanced productivity power. Stay tuned for more updates as Microsoft is now ready to present their educational-based devices.