Microsoft's new Surface Earbuds and Headphones will be available next week

PowerPoint presentations are about to get a lot (well, maybe not a lot) more exciting.

Microsoft announced Wednesday that its new Surface Headphones and Surface Earbuds will be out May 12. 

While the Headphones are the latest version of a product Microsoft launched a couple of years ago, the earbuds are the company's first real AirPods competitor. 

The Surface Earbuds are interesting because they travel a slightly different road than AirPods or the recently released Pixel Buds. Obviously you can use them to listen to music, but Microsoft is pushing them as work-friendly wireless earbuds. They tie into Microsoft's Office software, allowing for dictation and moving through slides in PowerPoint, among other things. Read more...