Let’s be honest, how many remember Microsoft mentioning HoloLens or VR after the unveiling of Microsoft Surface Studio? If your answer is “Holo-what?” You might have missed an important piece of information that might influence your Christmas shopping list.

The device, cleverly disguised as a stylish touch-enabled hockey puck, and equipped with haptic feedback, allows to access settings typically buried deep within a graphical interface, which considerably speeds up the workflow.

In no uncertain terms, what Microsoft has done is simple: it merged the power of a desktop PC, the simplicity and user-friendliness of a tablet, and packaged it into a shell with a design flare that is typically Apple’s prerogative.

Last week, Google has made a subtle, but important announcement in regard to its Google Drive service as well, whose support will no longer include Windows XP, Windows Vista, or Windows Server 2003, as of January 1st 2017.