GammaTech’s DuraBook R8300 is the “Crown Victoria” of laptops. Its design is traditionally plain, thick, a little on the “vintage” side, but that’s no accident, because that’s precisely what makes it one of the top sellers for first responders like law enforcement, fire department and all military branches.

Among some of the announcements on which we can only speculate up to this point, there may be a new desktop Surface all-in-one, which Microsoft may have been working on to rival the Apple iMac, and to also begin to close the gaps in the Surface family.

Finally, Wacom has decided to fight back, and provide professional customers and companies with a new range of products to meet the requirements of creatives and designers who may be tempted to opt for a more lightweight, wireless solution, instead of staying tethered to a desktop workstation.

Microsoft may not be as elusive as Apple when it comes to product releases, but if we were going by common sense, Microsoft’s latest business decisions follow a method that, under the right light, makes a lot of sense, even when many seem to interpret all these occurrences (Lumia, Band), as a sign that Microsoft may be forfeiting its efforts as maker of wearable and mobile devices.