It’s not unexpected to think that, after two years of a global pandemic that bounced employees and workers and supply chains around like billiard balls, that 2022 would be a little weird. And for Microsoft, it was: confusing, a bit random, but full of some unexpected successes.
Microsoft’s Surface division? Dull, but with a few sparks of life. Windows? Unexpectedly strange. As for the rest of it, yes, we definitely scratched our heads. As we sit next to our glowing monitor, a glass of eggnog next to our mousepad, here’s the wins, fails and WTF? moments of Microsoft’s 2022.
SURFACE PRO 9 (5G): WIN
We were one of the few publications that actually liked the Surface Pro 9 (5G), an Arm tablet that still suffers from some of the compatibility issues of its forebears. But the Surface-on-Arm premise has always been to power a few key Microsoft apps: Edge, Office, Teams, and so on. In this, the Surface Pro 9 (5G) performs well enough to earn our seal of approval.
We’ve criticized Windows on Arm devices before because of their performance issues, in part because
