The recent generations of Microsoft's Surface devices have been surrounded by a bit of controversy, due to the lack of a USB Type-C port, a technology that virtually all of the company's competitors ...

Some modern laptops and tablets have nothing but USB Type-C ports. Most of Microsoft’s Surface devices, meanwhile, don’t even have a single USB-C port. But the company promised last year that it would ...

If there’s been one weakness of the Surface tablet series, it’s been a lack of available expansion ports—a shortcoming Microsoft addressed with the Surface Dock. But three years after the latest Dock ...

Microsoft's venerable Windows 2-in-1 tablet marches forward with new features, including a cutting-edge Intel processor, but it could be overshadowed by the much cooler Surface Pro X. I’m the deputy ...

It's almost embarrassing, at least for Microsoft, that Apple would be at the forefront of pushing new standards like USB-C and Thunderbolt 3 while its premier flagship computers obstinately remain in ...

Earlier this month, Microsoft announced the Surface Laptop, sparking fresh criticism that it's 2017 and there are still no Surface devices that exist with a USB Type-C port. The firm announced the new ...

If the state of a society can be gleaned from its luxury technology, then nothing sums up the unbridled consumerism quite like this $80 dongle, approximately the size and weight of a two-year-old ...

Update (June 26): There's now a listing for and a photo of the coming USB-C dongle for Surface, codenamed "Tulum," on Microsoft's Surface business site. Update No. 2 (June 29): The Surface Connect to ...

Since the supported Surface systems only have one Surface Connect port, this means that you can either charge your laptop or tablet, or use the dongle to connect to a Type-C peripheral, but not both ...