With Surface Laptop being official, Microsoft is now putting final touches to its new Surface Pro tablet lineup. Although the Surface Pro 5 and Surface Book 2 were expected to be announced in late 2016, the announcement appears to be around the corner.

Microsoft's corporate vice president Yusuf Mehdi said that a successor to the Surface Pro 4 is closer than we think. We don't have any specifics, but the new tablet might be announced on May 23 in Shanghai, when Microsoft is holding a press conference.

"We are in Surface to create new categories of computing, and you see that with the Surface Book, Surface Studio, and even the original Surface Pro. And then what we want to do is that we want to grow the overall Windows ecosystem with HP, Dell, Lenovo. If you look at the last year, we've grown share in large parts because of the pioneering work in Surface. This last year it's true we've seen more price competition from OEMs. The Surface Laptop is new today, and you might expect to see an update to Surface Pro 4 coming soon," he said.