Build 2026 just wrapped up with what I can only describe as an absolute showcase, and Satya Nadella's keynote was no joke—two and a half hours packed to the brim! The big headline for PC folks has been Microsoft's new Surface Laptop Ultra, already revealed ahead of time thanks to smart timing at Computex in Taiwan. This 15-inch powerhouse looks like MacBook Pro went through a tech-forward makeover with NVIDIA's RTX Spark system-on-chip underneath—seriously serious graphics combined with next-level AI processing that could change what premium Windows laptops can actually deliver on.
Project Solara stole the show as Microsoft's brand-new platform built specifically for agent-first systems, complete with two concept devices on display to showcase its capabilities, and we got surprise stage appearances from industry heavyweights like NVIDIA CEO Jensen Huang and Qualcomm's Cristiano Amon—no small thing when you're trying to prove your AI vision. Nadella also tackled the elephant in the room directly: technology concentrating power at the top while potentially squeezing out humanity itself—but argued Microsoft is actively building alternatives with their integrated approach across Windows, Copilot, and now even Office 365 updates on the horizon too!
The quantum computing news blew my mind completely—Nadella announced Majorana 2 as the sequel to last year's chip (which pioneered an entirely new kind of superconductor), boasting a staggering 20-second mean lifetime with operations happening in just one microsecond, and honestly that scale is hard for me to wrap around. Microsoft Discovery was another huge piece, their AI-driven scientific research platform demonstrated live where researchers could run multiple experiments through natural language prompts at once—Carmona literally described it as "being Iron Man but for chemistry," though the thing sometimes needs hours or even days because real science doesn't always follow a neat linear path like our computer habits do. Nadella closed by asking us all if we're going to get to use quantum computers in our own lifetimes, and honestly I'm starting to believe we might!
Source: https://www.engadget.com/2185601/microsoft-build-2026-live-blog-copilot-windows-news/
Project Solara stole the show as Microsoft's brand-new platform built specifically for agent-first systems, complete with two concept devices on display to showcase its capabilities, and we got surprise stage appearances from industry heavyweights like NVIDIA CEO Jensen Huang and Qualcomm's Cristiano Amon—no small thing when you're trying to prove your AI vision. Nadella also tackled the elephant in the room directly: technology concentrating power at the top while potentially squeezing out humanity itself—but argued Microsoft is actively building alternatives with their integrated approach across Windows, Copilot, and now even Office 365 updates on the horizon too!
The quantum computing news blew my mind completely—Nadella announced Majorana 2 as the sequel to last year's chip (which pioneered an entirely new kind of superconductor), boasting a staggering 20-second mean lifetime with operations happening in just one microsecond, and honestly that scale is hard for me to wrap around. Microsoft Discovery was another huge piece, their AI-driven scientific research platform demonstrated live where researchers could run multiple experiments through natural language prompts at once—Carmona literally described it as "being Iron Man but for chemistry," though the thing sometimes needs hours or even days because real science doesn't always follow a neat linear path like our computer habits do. Nadella closed by asking us all if we're going to get to use quantum computers in our own lifetimes, and honestly I'm starting to believe we might!
Source: https://www.engadget.com/2185601/microsoft-build-2026-live-blog-copilot-windows-news/