We are starting the year: these could be the novelties that Microsoft would teach us throughout 2019

We have just started the year: welcome to 2019. And just as we make a clean slate with renewed purposes and new plans, companies have already marked a good part of the futurethey want to have in the new year.

We don't know what can happen in the remaining 364 days, but we can at least figure out what the movements carried out by the most important companies may be and since we are in Xataka Windows, here We are going to focus on Microsoft and what we can expect for the year 2019.

Up-to-date products and new devices

It is to be expected that we will see how every year, a renewal of the catalog of the Surface family in almost all its proposals. New models with better features that should appear throughout the year.

Some rumors suggest that Microsoft could unveil a new and revolutionary dual-screen device that would launch a new range of products. We don't know what's going on about it, but we'll be attentive to any movement.

It also points to the possibility that Microsoft is working on a speaker that would work on top of Cortana and that it would come to compete with the HomePod from Apple, the Google Home from Google or the Echo from Amazon. A model that will focus exclusively on productivity that would have nothing to do with the Harman Kardom Invoke.In addition, Microsoft is also working on a Surface Studio Monitor that will be the same as the Surface Studio but from which the CPU would be discounted to stay only on a monitor, an idea similar to what Apple experimented with the iMac and the Apple Cinema Display in its day. .

In addition, 2019 will be the time to get to know the new Surface Hub 2S, which will arrive in the second quarter of 2019. The Microsoft Surface Hub 2S, a device that has been developed with the purpose ofdeliver the same experience as the first Surface Hub while benefiting from the improvements that have appeared in these three years.

This will offer a more current appearance with a more stylized design and this will translate into greater ease of use, as this Surface Hub 2S will be easier to mount, either on the specific supports or if not possible on the wall.

New HoloLens

It is one of the big bets and it is that every week there are more rumors regarding a second generation of HoloLens. Accidental leaks, depletion of _stock_... always an invitation to think that with the spring update some Microsoft HoloLens vNext could arrive that would debut an improved Holographic Processing Unit (it can be talks about the Qualcomm Snapdragon XR platform1) with more AI capabilities and an improved Kinect depth camera.

Bet on USB Type C

We don't know if it will be a reality or a dream, but we hope that with 2019 Microsoft will decide to bet on this standard of each one that is included in all its devices.The Surface Go marked the beginning and now we hope to see it in the new Surface Pro 7, Surface Laptop 3 as well as in the peripherals that reach the market.

Windows Lite to fight with Chrome OS and more

Windows Lite is the proposal to try to win the battle against Google and Chrome OS. An operating system focused on use in companies and educational environments.

Windows Lite would be intended to be used in devices that require a more versatile and less heavy operating system in which some functions would not be necessary and therefore could be removed. It would be a new twist on what we already saw with Windows 10 S Mode.

It will also be a good time to see how the influence of Fluent Design grows that will reach more and more Microsoft products and services . We will see it in more and more applications.

What's New on Xbox

We may perhaps see new touches on the consoles that will presumably arrive in 2020 Two new machines that we now know as Anaconda and Lockhart (successors Xbox One X and Xbox One S respectively). There is also speculation about a console without a disc reader, more affordable and designed to be used only with games bought in the Xbox Store and perhaps with the Project xCloud project, an ambitious idea that will allow us to enjoy Xbox games from any device.

In addition a new subscriber program is expected to replace Xbox All Access with which interested parties could access new _hardware_ along with access to Xbox Live Gold and Xbox Game Pass service for a monthly fee.