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Microsoft Surface Tablet Sales Nothing to Brag About

Posted 03/15/2013 at 11:23am | by Paul Lilly

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Microsoft needs to reexamine its Surface RT/Pro strategy.

Redmond, we have a problem. Citing "people with knowledge of [Microsoft's] sales," Bloomberg is reporting Surface tablet shipments in the neighborhood of just 1.5 million units, indicating a lethargic start for the company's foray into modern day tablets. This isn't what Microsoft envisioned when it redesigned and re-imagined Windows specifically with touchscreen devices in mind.

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iFixit Compiles Tablet Reparability List – Apple & Microsoft Duke it Out for Worst of the Worst

Posted 03/03/2013 at 12:57pm | by Justin Kerr

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Broken Tablet

The best tablets on the market are also the worst to drop.

Here at Maximum PC we love to strip machines down and rebuild them just to see what makes it tick, but with modern gadgets that isn’t always easy. Screws have been replaced by glue, and the simple pleasures of popping the cover off to perform upgrades seems to be a lost art. iFixit has emerged as the Internet’s ultimate authority on gadget reparability, and its newly updated list of tablets puts both Microsoft and Apple fighting for the distinction as worlds least fixable tablet.

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Surface Tablet Family Set to Expand to More Countries

Posted 03/01/2013 at 12:54am | by Pulkit Chandna

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Microsoft “working super hard” to address Surface Pro supply issues

Microsoft’s Surface Pro tablet is currently available in the U.S. and Canada only, but Microsoft has announced that, beginning in March, the Windows Pro-running tablet will be rolling out to seven additional international markets. The Surface RT won’t be left behind either, expanding to six new countries.

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BlueStacks Android App Player Now Compatible with Windows 8

Posted 02/14/2013 at 6:55am | by Pulkit Chandna

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BlueStacks wants you to get your Android apps back on Windows 8

At last month’s Consumer Electronics Show, Android virtualization startup BlueStacks announced that its “App Player” software, which lets people enjoy Android apps on their PCs, was coming to Microsoft’s latest desktop operating system. It promptly delivered on that promise earlier this week when it released a new version of its free-to-download tool.

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Surface Pro Bombs iFixIt's Teardown Analysis

Posted 02/13/2013 at 9:46am | by Paul Lilly

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iFixIt's teardown of the Surface Pro reveals that it's even more difficult to service than Apple's iPad.

Our diabolical friends at iFixIt gave Microsoft's Surface Pro notebook/tablet the teardown treatment, and as always, they documented the surgery with plenty of pics every step of the way. It's a given that you need nerves of steel to tear into some of the devices that end up on iFixIt's operating table, and that's especially true of the Surface Pro, which scored a measly 1 out of 10 on iFixIt's Repairabilty scale (the higher the score, the easier it is to service).

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Is Supply or Demand to Blame For Surface Pro Being Sold Out on Launch Weekend?

Posted 02/10/2013 at 1:46pm | by Justin Kerr

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Want to get your hands on a Surface Pro? We hope you aren't in any rush.

The Surface Pro officially hit the street this weekend, and it promptly sold out across the board. As with most “sold out” product launches, the Surface Pro is facing both praise, and criticism in roughly equal measure. Fans of the product are suggesting Microsoft simply can’t keep the tablet in stock, while its opponents are countering with accusations that the company is simply creating artificial scarcity.

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Microsoft Defends Surface Pro’s Limited Battery Life, Storage Space

Posted 02/08/2013 at 4:53pm | by Pulkit Chandna

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Pats its own back for not compromising on speed and performance

Now that the first Surface Pro reviews are out, it seems that even those determined to overlook its hefty price tag are going to have a hard time justifying the Core i5-powered tablet’s piss-poor battery life to themselves. At around 4-5 hours, the Surface Pro’s battery life (or the lack thereof) belies the very reason people buy tablets — unwired, uninterrupted on-the-go use. Microsoft’s Panos Panay tackled questions about both the Windows 8 tablet’s limited battery life and lack of usable storage space in a Reddit Ask Me Anything (AMA) session on Wednesday.

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Survey Suggest Huge Pent Up Demand for Windows 8 Tablets

Posted 02/08/2013 at 1:51pm | by Paul Lilly

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As many as 200 million IT workers may be holding out for the right Windows 8 tablet, Forrester says.

A war is brewing between Apple and Microsoft in the tablet space, but if you've read the initial reviews of Surface Pro, you might think it's a one-sided fight. Most reviewers agree that Surface Pro is too expensive, suffers from a short battery life, and is a niche product. However, there may be hundreds of millions of IT workers who are interested in what Surface Pro brings to the tablet.

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Reviewers Slam Surface Pro for Poor Battery Life, High Cost

Posted 02/06/2013 at 9:22am | by Paul Lilly

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Less than flattering reviews of Microsoft's Surface Pro tablet start to, uh, surface.

Microsoft is starting to find out what Acer meant when it said that the hardware business is like "hard rice" and "is not so easy to eat." Yes, those are real quotes, albeit probably a rough translation. The point Acer has repeatedly tried to hammer home is that Microsoft has no business competing against its OEM partners, and that it should focus on software, not hardware. Initial reviews of the Surface Pro aren't likely to change Acer's opinion, but will they change Microsoft's?

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Low Prices are Driving Rapid Tablet Adoption, Where Does That Leave Surface?

Posted 01/31/2013 at 9:50am | by Paul Lilly

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IDC says tablet shipments grew by three quarters in 2012.

Analysts came up short in predicting just how popular tablets would be in 2012, which according to preliminary data from International Data Corporation (IDC) grew 75.3 percent year-over-year in the fourth quarter. Tablet shipments topped 52.5 million units worldwide in Q4, and to put that number into perspective, the same research firm says PC shipments reached 89.8 million units in the same quarter.

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Microsoft needs to reexamine its Surface RT/Pro strategy.

The best tablets on the market are also the worst to drop.

Microsoft “working super hard” to address Surface Pro supply issues

BlueStacks wants you to get your Android apps back on Windows 8

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Want to get your hands on a Surface Pro? We hope you aren't in any rush.

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