A guy in a sideways fedora was the breakout star of the Microsoft event

Bryan Roper, Microsoft's executive demo lead, came on stage to debut... something during the company's Surface Pro 4 event on Tuesday.What the "something" was doesn't really matter, though, because Roper was wearing a fedora. A denim fedora. A sideways denim fedora. In 2015.Roper quickly became the breakout star of the event — almost overshadowing the HoloLens for developers and its first laptop — because, to recap, he was wearing a fedora.Before Roper worked at Microsoft, he was a blues musician in a cruise ship piano lounge. Perhaps the hat is a memento from his days overseas tickling the ivories.