Microsoft has announced a Windows and Surface event for October 7th in San Francisco, focusing on the future of local AI in PCs, with appearances by CEO Satya Nadella and Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang.
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<p class="wp-block-paragraph">It's been more than two years since the last major Windows event, so Microsoft is heading to San Francisco next month to outline the future of Windows and Surface devices. At an event on October 7th, the company says it will host a "conversation on how local AI will shape the next chapter of the PC."</p>
<p class="wp-block-paragraph">Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella will be in attendance, alongside Windows and Surface chief Pavan Davuluri. Even Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang will be appearing at the event, which suggests that RTX Spark PCs could be the main focus of this event. If that's the case, don't be surprised to hear more about the Microsoft Surface Laptop Ultra pricing and avai …</p>
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# Microsoft announces Windows and Surface event for October 7th
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It’s been more than two years since the last major Windows event, so Microsoft is heading to San Francisco next month to outline the future of Windows and Surface devices\. At an event on October 7th, the company says it will host a “conversation on how local AI will shape the next chapter of the PC\.”
Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella will be in attendance, alongside Windows and Surface chief Pavan Davuluri\. Even Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang will be appearing at the event, which suggests that RTX Spark PCs could be the main focus of this event\. If that’s the case, don’t be surprised to hear more about the Microsoft Surface Laptop Ultra pricing and availability\.
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I am also expecting Microsoft to focus on its quality improvements to Windows, and what’s coming next\. I am not expecting a surprise announce of Windows 12, though\.
Microsoft last held a major Windows[event in May 2024](https://www.theverge.com/24159022/microsoft-surface-ai-event-news-rumors-announcements), to unveil new Arm\-based Copilot Plus PCs and its renewed partnership with Qualcomm\. The last major Windows event before that was in June 2021, when Microsoft[announced Windows 11](https://www.theverge.com/2021/6/24/22546791/microsoft-windows-11-announcement-features-updates)during a live stream\.
*The Verge*will be covering Microsoft’s Windows event next month live from San Francisco on October 7th at 10AM PT / 1PM ET\.
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- Tom Warren
Microsoft Build 2026 featured major announcements including a new Surface dev box with Nvidia Arm chip, Windows improvements like native Linux utilities and Intelligent Terminal, an AI assistant called Scout, and seven new in-house AI models including the reasoning model MAI-Thinking-1.
At Microsoft Build 2026, CEO Satya Nadella put Windows front and center alongside Nvidia's new RTX Spark chips, positioning local AI compute on Windows PCs as a cost-effective alternative to cloud-based AI workloads. The partnership aims to enable powerful on-device AI agents, with RTX Spark capable of running 120-billion-parameter models locally.