Computerworld May 22, 2024
With its new Surface devices, Microsoft takes on the Mac.
With AI tools and Qualcomm Snapdragon X Elite chips inside its new Surface Pro laptops (called Copilot+ PCs), Microsoft is making no secret that it wants to compete head-on with the world’s most popular laptop, Apple’s MacBook Air.
It look like the PC wars have begun again
Despite this declaration of war, it feels like Microsoft owes a lot to Apple. For example, it’s all-new Recall feature reminds me of something Apple already had in its systems called Time Machine. Like Recall, Time Machine saves versions of everything on your device in an encrypted form and lets you “recall” them later on. The feature has always been tied to...