Microsoft veteran revisits NVIDIA's first Windows on ARM experiment with a nostalgic Tegra video shot on Windows Phone — Will history repeat itself in 2026?

Steven Sinofsky, president of Microsoft's Windows division, introduces a new tablet computer and Windows 8 software to the media in Shanghai on October 23, 2012.

Call me cynical, but I feel like Microsoft's entire ecosystem, especially Windows 11 and now Surface, is seemingly headed in the right direction. At the start of the year, the tech giant promised to improve the operating system's overall user sentiment by addressing major pain points based on customer feedback.

Microsoft has made major moves on this front over the past few months, including reducing where Copilot appears and more. And now, Microsoft, in partnership with NVIDIA at Computex 2026, has unveiled the Surface Laptop Ultra — equipped with 128GB of unified memory and full CUDA support with Windows-compatible RTX Spark under the hood. This powerhouse device breathes fresh air into the company's hardware division, signaling the dawn of what it calls “a new era of PC.”