# NVIDIA — NVIDIA, Microsoft Kick Off a New Beginning for Windows PCs With RTX Spark and AI Agents

- Company: NVIDIA (nvidia.com)
- Announced: 2026-10-07T18:45:28+00:00
- Category: not stated
- Coverage: 12 outlets
- Announcement: yes
- Group: covered
- Source: https://blogs.nvidia.com/blog/local-ai-rtx-spark-microsoft-windows-event/
- Record: https://forck.live/items/16454-nvidia-microsoft-kick-off-a-new-beginning-for-windows-pcs-with-rtx-spark-and
- Subject: AI platform

At a Microsoft event in San Francisco on Wednesday, Jensen Huang and Satya Nadella outlined how NVIDIA and Microsoft are co-engineering hardware and software for AI agents to run on Windows PCs. NVIDIA was founded because of Windows, Huang said. Now AI agents are coming to Windows. “If you look at the entire journey of our company, Windows was at the core of it,” Huang said, tracing back NVIDIA’s support for Windows and Microsoft over several decades. “If not for Windows there would be no GeForce.” NVIDIA founder and CEO Jensen Huang connected that history — and his long-term vision — to the agentic era Wednesday during a fireside chat with Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella hosted by Sriram Krishnan, a former senior White House policy advisor on AI at the Windows AI and Surface event, held at Dogpatch Studios in San Francisco. “The thing that I really give Jensen all the credit for, quite frankly, is that consistency of vision of what this can be—not today, not tomorrow, but as a secular trend,” Nadella said. “And that’s what brings us to this moment.” …

## Around this story

Outlets this record can name and link:

- Bloomberg: https://bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-10-07/microsoft-says-new-laptop-with-nvidia-chip-outperforms-macbooks
- CNBC: https://cnbc.com/2026/10/07/microsoft-starts-taking-preorders-for-2599-surface-laptop-ultra.html
- The Verge — The Surface Laptop Ultra finally has a release date — and a starting price of $2,599: https://theverge.com/news/1006378/microsoft-surface-laptop-ultra-pricing-release-date
- The Verge — Microsoft’s Surface Laptop Ultra has built-in magnetic USB-C charging: https://theverge.com/news/1006445/microsofts-surface-laptop-ultra-has-built-in-magnetic-usb-c-charging
- Engadget — Here's everything we know about Microsoft's Surface Laptop Ultra: https://engadget.com/2280302/microsoft-surface-laptop-ultra-specs
- Gizmodo — Microsoft's Surface Laptop Ultra Wants to Bring the 'Only Laptop You'll Ever Need' Experience to PCs: https://gizmodo.com/microsoft-surface-laptop-ultra-specs-pricing-2000822871
- Digital Trends: https://digitaltrends.com/computing/microsoft-introduces-surface-laptop-ultra-powerhouse-with-nvidia-spark-inside
- Tom's Hardware: https://tomshardware.com/laptops/microsoft-and-nvidia-launch-surface-laptop-ultra-with-rtx-spark-rtx-spark-preorders-live-now-coinciding-with-major-windows-11-changes-for-agentic-ai
- Neowin: https://neowin.net/news/microsofts-surface-laptop-ultra-is-now-available-for-pre-order-for-2599
- Notebookcheck: https://notebookcheck.net/Microsoft-Surface-Laptop-Ultra-debuts-with-RTX-Spark-128-GB-unified-memory-and-2-599-starting-price.1418420.0.html
- XDA Developers — We finally know the Surface Laptop Ultra’s price and release date, and how its clever breakaway USB-C port works: https://xda-developers.com/surface-laptop-ultra-release-date-pricing-microsoft-surface-event
- Videocardz: https://videocardz.com/newz/nvidia-rtx-spark-laptops-launch-october-16-prices-start-at-2599
- Pocket-lint — Microsoft just gave USB-C a magnetic upgrade: https://pocket-lint.com/microsoft-gives-usb-c-magnetic-upgrade

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