Windows and Surface live blog: On the ground at Microsoft’s event

Microsoft is positioning Windows and Surface around a new generation of AI-enabled PCs, highlighting its Nvidia partnership and the RTX Spark platform for local AI, creative workloads, and developer-focused use cases. For CIOs, the strategic signal is that endpoint refresh cycles are shifting from general productivity to AI-capable devices, with implications for performance, reliability, software compatibility, and how IT supports on-device inference at scale. This also raises the competitive bar against Apple and suggests Windows environments will increasingly be evaluated on their ability to run local AI securely and efficiently.