Meet the new Microsoft, a maker of premium hardware products

By Gadjo Cardenas Sevilla

By launching its own Apple-esque spread of super-desirable and sexy handsets, tablets, notebooks and wearables, Microsoft can show the world ideal products that work best with its software and services. 

Windows 10 might have been made available for free, but enjoying the optimal Windows 10 experience on Microsoft's new devices is going to cost you.

Microsoft just unloaded a kaboodle of new hardware and none of them can be considered cheap, even if the unified OS which they run, Windows 10, is one of the most accessible and available operating systems in the market today. Since it launched eight weeks ago, Windows 10 has been installed in over 110 million devices by users hoping to exorcise the demons left behind by Windows 8 on their PC's, 2-in-1's and tablets.

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Leaks of Microsoft Band 2 show a better looking wearable

Microsoft is rumoured to be announcing its Band 2 wearable at the company’s October 6^th event. And we might be getting an early look thanks to a leak by Spanish site Microsoft Insider. Although we can’t confirm the veracity of the image, it shows what seems to be official renders of the new wearable. It shows a curved face and metallic finish that helps move it away from the utilitarian looks of the first Band device. We’ll find out soon enough what Microsoft has up its sleeve and see if this is indeed what their new Band will look like.

Source: Microsoft Insider | Via: The Verge