It seems like Microsoft is indeed preparing to tackle the hardware business on its own, as a recent visit by Indian app developer Shubhan Chemburkar to Microsoft's Building 88 revealed a dedicated wall of the tech giant's hardware efforts. What is particularly interesting is the fact that the particular wall had a spot for 2016 that simply says "Coming Soon."

Considering that the wall in Building 88 exclusively featured the Surface products of the tech giant, speculations immediately ran high that the 2016 Surface device would be the rumored Surface All-in-One, a device that many considers as Microsoft's answer to the Mac Pro.

The Surface line of devices has always been Microsoft's way to showcase the capability of its software. After all, unlike Apple, which makes most of its revenue with the sale of its hardware, Microsoft's earnings are mainly rooted in the sale and utilization of its suites of popular software, such as Windows OS and MS Office. Thus, creating an AIO machine actually makes sense.

In a lot of ways, a Surface All-in-One would provide Microsoft a pretty good way to show consumers just how much its software can do with the right hardware. Right now, the devices that best personify this would be the Surface Pro 4 and the Surface Book, two hybrid devices that actually compare favorably to the iPad Pro and the Macbook Pro.

As much as the Surface Pro 4 and the Surface Book are excellent devices, however, they are still, at their core, portable machines. Due to their form factor, there is just so much that Microsoft could do. If the tech giant were to make a Surface desktop computer, however, it would provide Microsoft with far more options to maximize the power of its software. Simply put, it would be able to equip the best that the tech market has to offer, such as the GTX 1080, for example.

While the cost of such a device would undoubtedly be high, Microsoft could rest assure that the machine would have a very viable market. After all, Windows is still the OS utilized by most power users in the computing world. As much as MacOs is user-friendly and Linux is excellent when used for servers, most heavy-duty computing is still commonly done with Windows.

Thus, if Microsoft were to make the Holy Grail of PCs, there is no doubt that it would be one of the best-selling Surface devices ever created. 

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