Microsoft Surface is a series of touchscreen Windows personal computers and interactive whiteboards designed and developed by Microsoft. All Surface PC's are compatible with Microsoft's WIndows 10 operating system. The Surface family features six main lines of devices; The Surface line of hybrid tablets, Surface pro hybrid tablets,Surface Laptop, the Surface Notebook, The Surface Studio and The Surface HUB. The sale of the first generation did not live up to the expectaions of Microsoft, which lead to more promotion, reduction in sale prices and other incentives. They had expected 2 million Surface units and had only a total of 1.5 million units sold. Microsoft had made a loss of $900,000,00 because of the lackluster sales of Surface.