Microsoft says Surface devices don’t have Thunderbolt due to security concerns

Photo by Amelia Holowaty Krales / The Verge Microsoft has explained why its range of Surface laptops and tablets don’t have Thunderbolt ports or removable RAM: security concerns. That detail was revealed in a Surface engineering webinar leaked on Twitter by WalkingCat, wherein a Microsoft employee lays out all the engineering involved in the company’s latest devices.“No Surface device has Thunderbolt. Why not? Because that’s a direct memory access port,” explains t