JUNE 2020 PCWorld 29

Microsoft officially delays Surface

Neo, dual-screen Windows PCs

Microsoft’s chief product officer, Panos Panay, also pledges to accelerate Windows 10

features. BY MARK HACHMAN

M

icrosoft has officially

confirmed that it’s delaying

its dual-screen Windows

experiences, including the

Surface Neo, until “the right moment”

arrives. That announcement was part of a

blog post in which Panos Panay, the new

chief product officer of Windows and

Devices, laid out his vision of what he sees

for Microsoft’s Windows 10 and related

hardware programs.

In some sense, the blog post (go.

pcworld.com/acin) announcing the changes

reads like a recap of what we already know:

The Windows 10 May 2020 Update will begin

shipping to the general public in May;

Microsoft is turning its Build conference into a

free, online-only event; and Microsoft is

postponing its own dual-screen devices.

Microsoft had only internally

communicated the latter choice internally,

according to a recent ZDNet report (go.

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