Surface Laptop Ultra gives its touchscreen a wordless close-up
Microsoft's display-focused commercial is drawing a faster audience than its usual Shorts, while some viewers are already imagining Linux on it.
Why this story? The video opened at a pace of 67,579 views a day, 12 times a normal first day on this channel (5,547).
Surface Laptop Ultra | See Every Detail
The voiceover sits this out. Microsoft's new Surface Laptop Ultra commercial makes its case with a hand rotating a model on the touchscreen, animated layers of glass and a burst of colorful particles.
"Surface Laptop Ultra | See Every Detail" drew about 34,000 views in its first eight hours, already well beyond the channel's usual full-day audience for Shorts. It gives the Laptop Ultra rollout a narrower focus after earlier videos introduced the machine and its magnetic USB-C charging.
This is Microsoft's own advertisement, not an independent screen test. It moves from touch controls to an exploded view of the display, then uses bright particle graphics to illustrate its HDR claims. Microsoft bills it on screen as its brightest display yet.
The comments take that carefully controlled presentation somewhere less scripted. Several viewers bring up installing Linux, while another asks about availability in India. Those are questions and wish lists, not confirmation of compatibility or launch plans, but they put a practical twist on a commercial devoted to the screen.
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What viewers say
Thats a great screen to look at my Linux desktop with!
@Tech_7YTSee it on YouTubeAny plan to launch in india?
@watratbhiduSee it on YouTubeBest pair of commercials Microsoft have ever uploaded.
@lawsonhellu4718See it on YouTube
Public comments from the video's page on YouTube
- Channel
- Microsoft Surface
- Subscribers
- 511,000 ▲ 1,000 this week
- Channel views, last 7 days
- 4,917,413
- Channel views, pace per day
- 159,276 (on a normal day: 409,460)
- Video published
- October 14, 2026
- Video views so far
- 33,508 (less than a day online)
- Video views, pace per day
- 67,579
The numbers
The display commercial passed the channel's usual first-day Shorts audience within eight hours. Its first full day is still underway.
💡 Test your knowledge
What display branding appears in the Surface Laptop Ultra commercial?
The commercial identifies the laptop's display as a PixelSense Ultra touchscreen.

