Software King of the World Microsoft has ordered a Windows and Surface event for 7 October, promising local AI, new hardware and another Nvidia-heavy PC push.
According to The Verge, the event will take place in San Francisco and feature Microsoft chairman and chief executive Satya Nadella, Windows and Devices chief Pavan Davuluri, and Nvidia chief executive Jensen Huang. It will be Microsoft’s first major Windows and Surface event in more than two years.
Vole says the gathering will explain “how local AI will shape the next chapter of the PC.”
Huang’s presence points towards Nvidia’s RTX Spark platform playing a large part in proceedings. The Verge expects RTX Spark PCs to feature prominently, with further details about Microsoft’s Surface Laptop Ultra among the possibilities.
Nvidia and Microsoft unveiled RTX Spark on 31 May 2026 as an Arm-based platform for Windows machines running AI workloads locally. Nvidia claims up to one petaflop of AI performance and up to 128GB of unified memory.
Vole has already announced the Surface Laptop Ultra, describing it as its most powerful Surface Laptop. The machine was developed around RTX Spark for developers, creators and AI workloads, although pricing and final availability details remain outstanding.
There is a desktop sibling too. Microsoft’s Surface RTX Spark Dev Box combines an Nvidia Blackwell RTX GPU with a Grace CPU and up to 128GB of unified memory shared between processor and graphics hardware.
Microsoft claims the Dev Box can deliver up to one petaflop of AI compute and run models with more than 120 billion parameters and one-million-token contexts. That petaflop figure is theoretical FP4 performance using Nvidia’s sparsity feature, not something pulled from an ordinary application benchmark.
The machine ships with Windows 11 Pro configured for developers, including WSL 2 with GPU passthrough and CUDA support. VS Code, GitHub Copilot, Git, Python, Node.js and PowerShell 7 are preinstalled, saving buyers several minutes before they start installing something Microsoft forgot.
Local AI has become a larger part of Microsoft’s Windows pitch. Its current developer stack includes Windows AI APIs, Foundry Local and Windows ML, with on-device models and GPU or NPU acceleration intended to reduce trips to cloud servers.
Microsoft said during its July earnings call that it wants Windows to become an “offload for unmetered intelligence”, combining on-device compute with enterprise security. Nadella’s outfit clearly fancies turning spare PC silicon into an alternative to paying for every AI request in somebody else’s data centre.
Anyone waiting for Microsoft to pull Windows 12 from behind the curtain may need to keep waiting. The Verge does not expect a Windows 12 launch, and the event will likely focus on Windows improvements, local AI, and the upcoming RTX Spark hardware.
