Microsoft is expected to announce the availability of an LTE Surface tablet later this week at its Future Decoded, reports Ars Technica and others . The Surface Pro was announced in June 2017 and support for an LTE version was mentioned but with no details on the release date. Although Microsoft has called a halt to further developments of Windows 10 on Mobile ( restricting updates to security patches and bug fixes ) the importance of the Surface hardware to Microsoft is clear. Its recent financial results showed an increase in revenue and the Surface division return to profitability. But the real growth, and the area that CEO Satya Nadella would like people to focus on is cloud revenue , which is comfortably beating the internal targets and gives Microsoft an ‘in’ to the smartphone market through suite of iOS and Android apps . Microsoft’s focus on mobile has moved away from the OS layer over the last year or two and switched to bringing users into the cloud ...