Microsoft fires shots at MacBook Neo, but that battle looks to be an uphill struggle — and rumored ditching of more affordable Surface laptops won't help
THE SO WHAT
If Microsoft walks away from lower-cost Surface hardware while pushing against MacBook Neo, it cedes the on-ramp for students and developers who later decide the ecosystem. For IT and app teams, assume a more polarized hardware base — premium Copilot+ PCs vs Macs — and test your stack cleanly across both.
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