As organizations look to the longer term, accessing and unlocking worth via each the cloud and endpoints will develop into a cornerstone of each AI technique. Combining the scalability of cloud compute with the effectivity of native AI compute via highly effective Neural Processing Items (NPU) with a groundbreaking new class of PCs: Copilot+ PCs. These units are constructed to ship unparalleled efficiency and intelligence.
At this time, we’re excited to announce the newest additions to our Floor for Enterprise Copilot+ PC household: Floor Professional and Floor Laptop computer, now out there with the newest Intel Core Extremely processors (Sequence 2). Beginning Feb. 18, enterprise clients can select between Intel and Snapdragon-powered Copilot+ PCs from Floor, and expertise essentially the most superior, clever and safe PCs out there throughout each platforms.
In response to certainly one of our high buyer requests to offer extra mobile connectivity choices for cellular work, we’re thrilled to share that for the primary time, 5G shall be coming to Floor Laptop computer for Enterprise, out there later in 2025[i]. This laptop computer has been redesigned from the bottom as much as exceed our clients’ expectations for a linked Home windows 11 Copilot+ PC and can also be outfitted with Intel Core Extremely processors (Sequence 2).
To spherical out our enterprise choices, we’re additionally excited to introduce the brand new Floor USB4 Dock, new experiences with Microsoft Groups Rooms on Floor Hub 3 and the general public preview of Safety Copilot within the Floor Administration Portal.
New Floor Copilot+ PCs for Enterprise
Prospects are selecting Floor Copilot+ PCs in the present day for the very best in efficiency, battery life and safety. Paired with Microsoft 365 Copilot[ii] and enhanced AI processing energy, these units rework the worker expertise to amplify your staff’s effectivity and creativity via Copilot+ PC experiences designed for work.
“At CES, we showcased Copilot+ PCs powered by Intel Core Extremely processors (Sequence 2) and partnered with Microsoft to make sure that it delivers distinctive efficiency, longer battery life and cutting-edge safety for the Home windows ecosystem. We’re excited to introduce new Floor for Enterprise Copilot+ PCs and supply companies with a wider vary of AI-powered units to boost effectivity and productiveness. Our partnership will proceed to drive momentum within the class.”
Jim Johnson, Senior Vice President and Interim Normal Supervisor of Intel’s Consumer Computing Group
Floor Laptop computer for Enterprise with Intel Core Extremely processors (Sequence 2)
Obtainable beginning Feb. 18, 2025, beginning at $1,499.99 (MSRP)
Prospects select Floor Laptop computer as a result of it redefines the premium PC constructed for work, combining a modern trendy design with unimaginable efficiency and industry-leading safety. It’s designed to strike the right stability between energy and portability, maximizing productiveness whereas being a tool that workers are proud to hold and use.
The brand new Floor Laptop computer for Enterprise is constructed with the newest Intel Core Extremely processors (Sequence 2), an unimaginable battery that lasts as much as 22 hours[iii], anti-reflective shows with ultra-thin bezels, Wi-Fi 7[iv], extra ports and an non-obligatory good card reader[v].
Obtainable in two sizes, the 13.8-inch show provides a bigger viewing space than conventional 14-inch screens inside a extra compact body, whereas the 15-inch model supplies much more viewing area whereas remaining simple to hold.
This skinny and compact design delivers on the crucial fundamentals that companies depend on. When in comparison with Floor Laptop computer 5, the brand new Floor Laptop computer delivers as much as 26% sooner efficiency for multi-tasking[vi], as much as 2x sooner graphics efficiency[vii], as much as 3x the battery life when on Groups calls[viii] and may simply energy new AI-powered experiences via the NPU.
The keyboard on Floor Laptop computer supplies an distinctive typing expertise, perfected for consolation, velocity and sound with each keystroke. The massive precision haptic touchpad delivers life like suggestions when tapped or clicked. Designed for inclusivity, the touchpad permits customers to simply modify strain sensitivity and use intuitive contact gestures for simpler navigation.
Developments in laptop computer design help our clients’ sustainability targets, a crucial issue when equipping a big workforce with new units. The brand new Floor Laptop computer comprises extra recycled content material than every other Floor gadget together with 100% recycled uncommon earth metals within the magnets[ix] and that includes our first ever battery cell to utilize 100% recycled cobalt[x].
For the primary time ever, we’re including mobile connectivity to our Floor Laptop computer lineup. Floor Laptop computer 5G shall be out there later in 2025, enabling your staff to work comfortably and productively from nearly wherever. We’ll share extra particulars on Floor Laptop computer 5G within the coming months.
The brand new Floor Laptop computer is a real enterprise machine, designed to satisfy the wants of contemporary professionals and improve productiveness in any work setting.
Floor Professional for Enterprise with Intel Core Extremely processors (Sequence 2)
Obtainable beginning Feb. 18, 2025, beginning at $1,499.99 (MSRP)
Floor Professional is the go-to gadget for purchasers which are in search of a tool that may do all of it, providing highly effective efficiency, unimaginable versatility and enterprise-grade safety from Microsoft. It shortly adapts to your staff’s wants, whether or not that’s typing a report with a Floor Professional Keyboard[xi], taking notes with the Floor Slim Pen[xi] or utilizing the AI-powered ultrawide digicam to maintain you in body on Groups calls. With the versatile design of Floor Professional, it could actually exchange the necessity to use a pill and a laptop computer with one gadget that may provide the better of each.
The new Floor Professional is constructed with the newest Intel Core Extremely processors (Sequence 2), delivers as much as 28% extra efficiency[xii], as much as 98% extra graphics efficiency[vii] and as much as 2x the battery life throughout Groups calls[xiii] in comparison with Floor Professional 9. It additionally options enhanced native AI processing energy with an NPU to amplify your staff’s intelligence, effectivity and creativity via Copilot+ PC experiences designed for work.
When paired with the Floor Professional Flex Keyboard[xi], Floor Professional transforms right into a extremely versatile Home windows laptop computer. The keyboard can be utilized both hooked up or wirelessly, permitting customers to adapt shortly and work effectively in any setting, from the workplace to an airplane or practice seat. This flexibility allows customers to have a snug and premium typing expertise that enhances productiveness wherever they work.
The 13-inch PixelSense show extends the flexibility of Floor Professional even additional. It’s designed for use simply with contact and pen enter as a pill or a laptop computer, and the anti-reflective and adaptive colour expertise helps customers to obviously see the content material on the display in nearly any lighting setting and reduces reflections by as much as 50%. The brand new non-obligatory OLED show delivers new ranges of peak brightness and immersive colours that enhance readability in even fluorescent workplace lighting environments and even in direct daylight.
Floor Professional additionally provides versatile and safe sign-in choices. Prospects can check in with facial recognition with the built-in Home windows Hey Digicam or the built-in NFC reader with safety keys just like the YubiKey 5C NFC to securely get to work with out utilizing a password. Floor Professional can also be licensed to be used with Imprivata Enterprise Entry Administration (EAM), enabling healthcare suppliers to faucet their NFC-enabled badge or safety key to shortly signal out and in. This enhances healthcare workflows and safeguards affected person information by logging customers off immediately, reduces errors by stopping clinicians from charting beneath the mistaken profile, and will increase productiveness by offering quick and safe person switching.
Throughout industries – from retail to schooling – our clients name out the significance of sustainability in making gadget purchases, and Floor Professional is designed with these targets in thoughts. The enclosure is made with a minimal of 89% recycled content material, together with 100% recycled aluminum alloy and 100% recycled uncommon earth metals[xiv]. It’s also designed for serviceability, with replaceable parts such because the motherboard, battery, cameras and a detachable SSD that may be accessed via an easy-to-open door behind the kickstand[xv].
Floor Professional is the right gadget for on the go productiveness, delivering lightning-fast efficiency, AI-accelerated energy, all in a skinny, gentle and versatile bundle.
Safe by design and by default
Consistent with Microsoft’s Safe Future Initiative dedication, safety is our high precedence, and we’re intently centered on designing our merchandise to be safe by design and by default. We frequently increase the bar to ship strong protection in opposition to the evolving menace panorama for each our clients and the whole Home windows ecosystem.
Home windows 11, our most safe working system but, dramatically reduces publicity to assault by enabling superior safety instruments and applied sciences by design and by default. This protects in opposition to phishing, malware, ransomware and different evolving threats.
Past Home windows, each layer of a Floor gadget, from the {hardware} to the cloud is maintained and guarded by Microsoft. This offers clients final management, proactive safety and peace of thoughts wherever and nevertheless they work. Our staff always thinks about how malicious actors may threaten your corporation and seamlessly ensures you all the time have the newest via Home windows Replace, making certain you and your groups stay protected and safe.
Copilot+ PCs are essentially the most safe Home windows PCs ever, with the Microsoft Pluton safety processor enabled by default on all Copilot+ PCs. Pluton, a chip-to-cloud safety expertise designed by Microsoft and embedded by silicon companions straight into the CPU, ensures Zero Belief rules on the core. This design helps shield delicate data similar to passwords, person identities and encryption keys from potential assaults. It acts as a safe vault throughout the laptop, making certain that even when somebody beneficial properties bodily entry to the gadget, they can not simply steal crucial information.
Pluton receives common updates straight from Microsoft, making certain it all the time has the newest safety features and protections in opposition to evolving threats. Microsoft can also be working throughout the Home windows ecosystem to replace the capabilities of Pluton by introducing the Key Storage Supplier (KSP) on Intel Core Extremely (Sequence 2), Snapdragon X Sequence and AMD Ryzen AI 300 collection processors. This can permit for safer storage and administration of cryptographic keys, additional strengthening the general safety of the gadget, and we’ll share extra particulars on this within the coming months.
This complete strategy ensures each layer of a Floor gadget is protected, offering a seamless and safe expertise for customers and peace of thoughts for IT professionals.
Be taught extra about what’s new with Microsoft Pluton on the Home windows IT Professional Weblog.
Unlocking AI productiveness with Home windows
These nice new Floor Copilot+ PCs are a part of an increasing ecosystem of Home windows business options that serve each job, in each group. We’re listening to our clients and offering them with extra selection in order that they will discover a Copilot+ PC that matches each want.
At Ignite, we launched a number of AI options that improve workflows, and increase communication and collaboration by tapping into the NPU on Copilot+ PCs. One among these new experiences is the brand new and improved Home windows Search expertise[xvi]. It permits customers to search out recordsdata utilizing related phrases and phrases, while not having to recollect precise file names or content material for each native and energetic OneDrive for Enterprise recordsdata. For instance, customers can discover a doc about sustainability by looking for “inexperienced presentation.” They will additionally search photographs primarily based on their content material, together with textual content present in a picture. Eradicating the necessity for exact key phrase matching in file names or content material can save beneficial time, enabling customers to intuitively seek for recordsdata, data or settings within the ways in which they will simply keep in mind.
Home windows, mixed with Microsoft 365 and Floor units, supplies a strong platform for companies to securely increase productiveness, simplify workflows and improve collaboration. With instruments like Home windows Autopatch, Autopilot in Intune, and Home windows Backup and Hotpatch, deploying and managing these new PCs securely has by no means been simpler.
New Safety Copilot in Floor Administration Portal (Preview)
Obtainable in public preview beginning Feb. 24, 2025
Streamline the administration of Floor units inside your group with the Floor Administration Portal in Microsoft Intune. This highly effective instrument supplies IT admins with a centralized platform to watch, handle and safe all Floor units, making certain they’re all the time up-to-date and performing optimally. Capabilities like gadget well being monitoring, guarantee and servicing administration assist companies preserve a safe and environment friendly IT setting, decreasing downtime and enhancing productiveness of their workers.
We’re excited to share that later this month, clients can have entry to Safety Copilot within the Floor Administration Portal. Copilot supplies the facility of generative AI in Intune to simplify and improve the gadget administration expertise for IT admins.
With Copilot, IT admins can shortly seek for and resolve particular gadget points, summarize guarantee data, and entry help tickets and repair orders associated to their group’s Floor units. This reduces the effort and time wanted for routine upkeep duties, creating extra time to concentrate on different initiatives. As well as, Copilot pulls contextually related information out of your Intune-enrolled Floor units together with public data right into a single view, streamlining the administration course of and enhancing general effectivity.
We’ve been in personal preview with a choose group of shoppers, permitting us to collect crucial suggestions and insights which have formed the present expertise. Beginning Feb. 24, clients can be a part of the general public preview, and the insights and learnings we’ll acquire might help us form the way forward for the Floor Administration Portal.
New Floor USB4 Dock
Obtainable beginning Feb. 18, 2025, at $199.99 (MSRP)
Improve your staff’s workspace with the brand new Floor USB4 Dock, the important dock for productiveness and connectivity. Join and energy units like the brand new Floor Professional and Floor Laptop computer with equipment by way of two USB-C, one USB-A, Ethernet and HDMI ports. This new dock delivers quick charging with the brand new Floor Professional and Floor Laptop computer with as much as 65W energy passthrough and allows quick information switch of as much as 40 Gbps. Twin 4K monitor help, by way of USB-C or HDMI transforms your workspace right into a three-screen powerhouse.
New Floor Hub 3 experiences
Floor Hub 3 is the first-party Groups Rooms contact board. We’ve introduced iconic Floor design along with the inclusive and collaborative Groups Rooms experiences that outline the assembly area. It’s helped our clients create a constant expertise throughout Hub and different convention rooms and collaborative areas, for each the groups assembly in these areas and the IT directors managing the expertise.
Now, we’re partnering with Groups to carry new experiences to Floor Hub 3. Microsoft Edge on Floor Hub 3 will supply seamless entry to web sites, third-party internet apps and private content material[xvii], with an easy-to-use dwelling display button for walk-up shopping. Edge will run in Kiosk Mode for privateness and safety, and Edge classes might be shared into Groups conferences.[xviii] Normal availability for Edge on Hub 3 is concentrating on Q3 2025.
Staff need the choice to share content material nevertheless is greatest for them – so we’re additionally including Miracast help to Groups Rooms on Home windows units. Miracast makes it attainable to wirelessly venture content material from a Floor PC to Floor Hub 3.
Order in the present day
With Home windows 10 Finish-of-Help upcoming on Oct. 14, 2025, now could be the time to transition your fleet from Home windows 10 to Home windows 11 with confidence. After offering 10 years of updates and help, Home windows 10 PCs will not obtain safety or function updates. Our focus is to assist companies and their workers keep protected and extra productive by transferring to Home windows 11 PCs. Floor Copilot+ PCs are the perfect option to modernize your corporation. They provide a strong mixture of {hardware}, software program and unparalleled safety, to help your corporation wants whereas future-proofing to make the most of new Copilot+ PC experiences being launched sooner or later.
As you trial and deploy Copilot+ PCs in your setting, contemplate Floor as your companion to unlock unique AI options to assist drive bottom-line enterprise outcomes. With choices for each Intel and Snapdragon-powered Copilot+ PCs, Floor supplies the pliability to satisfy your particular enterprise necessities. Order your Floor Copilot+ PCs in the present day and expertise the way forward for enterprise productiveness.
Go to Floor.com/Enterprise to be taught extra, discover a companion or order the brand new Floor Professional and new Floor Laptop computer straight from the Microsoft Retailer. When purchasing at Microsoft.com, clients can make the most of free transport and an prolonged 60-day worth safety and return window.
Footnotes:
[i] Floor Laptop computer with 5G shall be out there later in 2025 and never out there in all areas. eSIM and 5G help are additionally not out there in all areas; compatibility and efficiency rely on provider community, plan and different elements. See provider for particulars and pricing
[ii] Copilot for Microsoft 365 offered individually and requires a qualifying quantity license or subscription. Microsoft Copilot for Microsoft 365 | Microsoft 365.
[iii] As much as 22 hours of battery life primarily based on native video playback take a look at on Floor Laptop computer 15-inch, 7th Version with Intel Core Extremely processors (Sequence 2). Primarily based on native video playback take a look at. Testing carried out by Microsoft in January 2025 utilizing preproduction software program and preproduction Floor Laptop computer 13.8-inch Intel Core Extremely 5 256GB, 16GB RAM units and Floor Laptop computer 15-inch Intel Core Extremely 7 256GB, 16GB RAM units. Testing consisted of full battery discharge throughout video playback of a .mov file via the Home windows Media Participant software in 1080p at 24 FPS. All settings have been default besides display brightness set to 150 nits with Auto-brightness disabled. Wi-Fi was linked to a community. Battery life varies considerably with settings, utilization and different elements.
[iv] 6GHz band not out there in all areas.
[v] Built-in good card reader out there solely on Floor Laptop computer 15-inch, 7th Version with Intel Core Extremely processors (Sequence 2). See Floor.com/Enterprise for extra data.
[vi] Examined January 2025 utilizing CineBench 2024 Multi-Core benchmark. As much as 26% sooner evaluating Laptop computer 13.8-inch with Intel Core Extremely 7 processors to Floor Laptop computer 5 13.5-inch with Intel Core i7. As much as 12% sooner evaluating Floor Laptop computer 15-inch with Intel Core Extremely 7 processors to Floor Laptop computer 5 15-inch with Intel Core i7.
[vii] Primarily based on 3D Mark WildLife Excessive Limitless efficiency testing carried out by Microsoft in January 2025.
[viii] Primarily based on a Microsoft Groups 10-person video name take a look at. Testing carried out by third-party lab in January 2025 utilizing preproduction software program and preproduction Floor Laptop computer 15-inch, seventh Version Intel Core Extremely 7 266V, 16GB RAM, 256 GB and Floor Laptop computer 5 15-inch Intel Core i7-1265U, 16 GB RAM, 512 GB. Testing consisted of full battery discharge throughout a Microsoft Groups 10-person video name. All settings have been default besides display brightness set to 150 nits with Auto-brightness disabled. Wi-Fi was linked to a community. Examined with Home windows 11. Battery life varies considerably with settings, utilization and different elements.
[ix] Enclosure contains A Cowl, C Bucket, D Cowl. 100% recycled aluminum alloy in A Cowl, C Bucket and SIM Tray. 100% recycled uncommon earth metals in magnets. Primarily based on validation carried out by Underwriter Laboratories, Inc. utilizing Environmental Declare Validation Process (ECVP) for Recycled Content material, dated June 20, 2024.
[x] Incorporates 1.5% recycled cobalt, consisting of 100% recycled cobalt within the battery cell. Primarily based on validation carried out by Underwriter Laboratories, Inc. utilizing Environmental Declare Validation Process (ECVP) for Recycled Content material, UL ECVP 2809-2, Second Version, dated June 20, 2024.
[xi] Floor Professional Keyboard, Floor Professional Flex Keyboard, Floor Slim Pen offered individually.
[xii] Primarily based on Cinebench 2024 multithread efficiency testing carried out by Microsoft in January 2025.
[xiii] Primarily based on a Microsoft Groups 10-person video name take a look at. Testing carried out by third-party lab in January 2025 utilizing preproduction software program and preproduction Floor Professional, eleventh Version Intel Core Extremely 7 236V, 16GB RAM, 256 GB storage and a Floor Professional 9 with an i7-1225U processor, 16GB RAM and 256GB storage. Testing consisted of full battery discharge throughout a Microsoft Groups 10-person video name. All settings have been default besides display brightness set to 150 nits with Auto-brightness disabled. Wi-Fi was linked to a community. Examined with Home windows 11. Battery life varies considerably with settings, utilization and different elements.
[xiv] Enclosure contains bucket and kickstand. 100% recycled aluminum alloy in bucket. 100% recycled uncommon earth metals in magnets. Primarily based on validation carried out by Underwriter Laboratories, Inc. utilizing Environmental Declare Validation Process (ECVP) for Recycled Content material, UL ECVP 2809-2, Second Version, dated June 20, 2024.
[xv] Strong State Drive (SSD) Retention is barely out there on Microsoft Floor units by which the SSD is marketed as detachable per the Technical Specs. Strong State Drive (SSD) Retention is included in each Prolonged {Hardware} Service Plus and Microsoft Full for Enterprise Plus and can also be out there as an Optionally available Add-on when buying Microsoft Prolonged {Hardware} Service and Microsoft Full for Enterprise. Gadgets returned to Microsoft with a lacking Strong State Drive (SSD) are topic to a Strong State Drive (SSD) alternative charge until the gadget is enrolled within the Drive (SSD) Retention supply.
[xvi] Releasing first to our Home windows Insider neighborhood on Copilot+ PCs for choose languages (Chinese language, English, French, German, Japanese and Spanish) and file codecs, beginning early subsequent yr, earlier than rolling out extra broadly to our clients. See aka.ms/copilotpluspcs
[xvii] Software program license required.
[xviii] Pre-release product proven; topic to alter previous to business launch.