Microsoft Surface Studio: Company launches new touchscreen, iMac-like desktop computer intent on bringing back the PC

Microsoft has launched a new PC, hoping that it can bring back the dying category.

The company’s new desktop computer, named the Surface Studio, looks something like the iMac. And like Apple’s computer, it is meant as an all-in-one solution for people looking for a PC – a big screen that is attached to all the computing parts.

Unlike the iMac, the screen itself is touchscreen despite having a keyboard and a mouse. And that display is also the thinnest desktop monitor ever created, the company said.

Microsoft made the screen for professionals, it said. As such, it includes fast processors and other high-end features meant to allow people to use it for work like design, photography or engineering.

The screen sits on two chrome arms, which rise up from the desk that the computer’s sitting on. They are meant to become invisible, so that the user doesn’t see them while looking at the screen, Microsoft said.

And they also allow the computer to move all the way around and down. That means it can lay down flat if you want to draw on the computer like you would on a screen, Microsoft said.

People can then draw on it using the "pen", Microsoft's stylus. And they can also use a special "Dial" that will control the computer, spinning it to manipulate things on the computer.

But if you’re not looking at the computer, it has an array of microphones built into it to let people talk to the computer. That can happen without actually ever touching the device itself and just by talking to Cortana, Microsoft said.