Earlier this week we got an official launch date for Windows 11, but Microsoft has something else in store that’s happening even sooner. 

An all-digital event will be held on September 22 at 11am ET (save the date here), and although the company hasn’t explicitly stated what it’s for, it isn’t too hard to guess.

• The media invite says they’ll talk about “devices and Windows 11,” and since it’s Microsoft, that means new Surface devices.
• The invite image (seen above) shows a new Surface Pro, which follows the business-oriented Surface Pro 7 released earlier this year.
• The company is also tipped to release a new product in the Surface Book lineup, but this time with a key difference.
• If patents prove to be correct, it will ditch the detachable screen design for a new folding mechanism, and it might even drop the Surface Book branding.

But what we’re really looking forward to is the Surface Duo 2.

• Last year’s Surface Duo smartphone was certainly ambitious, but deeply flawed.
• Microsoft’s vision of a dual-screen folding device was a unique take on the future of mobile devices, but on release the software was buggy and borderline unusable.
• Essentially, it was a prototype masquerading as a consumer product priced at nearly $1,400.
• While we haven’t heard anything about the new device fixing these shortcomings, a leaked image a few months ago does at least show an enhanced external camera module.
• The original Surface Duo didn’t feature any external camera at all. The idea was to open the screen and use the internal selfie camera, but the results were middling at best.
• That said, the real question is whether or not Microsoft can fix the software and find compelling use cases for the dual-screen design.
• Specs and pricing to compete with real consumer folding devices like the Galaxy Z Fold 3 and Z Flip 3 wouldn’t hurt, either.