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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 Screws have been replaced by glue, and the simple pleasures of popping the cover off to perform upgrades seems to be a lost art.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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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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Don't Bank on Microsoft Launching a 7-inch Surface RT Model This Spring

Posted 02/07/2013 at 12:51pm | by Paul Lilly

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Surface RT's future is anything but clear.

Microsoft's Surface Pro tablet debuted to heavy criticism in the media, primarily over poor battery life and the high cost of ownership. Another factor that could ultimately affect sales is consumer confusion over what type of device the Surface Pro is, and that's something we suspect Microsoft will work on in the coming months. One thing Microsoft won't be pursuing, however, is another iteration of Surface RT, not in the short term, anyway.

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IHS iSuppli: Microsoft Surface RT Sales Low, Returns High

Posted 01/31/2013 at 11:36pm | by Pulkit Chandna

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Microsoft Surface RT sales “significantly lower” than shipments

Microsoft has been mum on Surface RT sales ever since the Windows RT device first hit the market on October 26, 2012, even maintaining its deathly silence on the subject during its recent fiscal second quarter earnings call. There can be only one explanation for this: Surface RT sales have been low. So low, in fact, that the company is embarrassed even to talk about it.

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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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Bill Gates Continues To Defend Windows 8 and the Surface

Posted 01/27/2013 at 8:51pm | by Justin Kerr

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Gill Gates Davos 2013

Bill Gates feels confident in Microsoft’s new Direction, and has no desire to return as CEO.

Okay so he might be just the tiniest bit biased, but Bill Gates claims Windows 8 and the Surface tablet have “done well”. His answer was a response to a CNBC interview question with regards to the future of his company, and if he would ever consider reclaiming his CEO title from Steve Ballmer. According to Gates, Windows 8 and the Surface were both developed without his guidance, and as a result he feels the company is doing just fine without him.

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Registry Hack Improves Surface RT Touch Response

Posted 01/14/2013 at 5:51am | by Pulkit Chandna

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Simple Windows RT registry tweak makes the Microsoft Surface RT a “touch” more responsive

The Surface RT firmware update Microsoft made available last week as part of this year's first Patch Tuesday brought with it a number of improvements, including improved audio playback in Connected Standby and “additional capabilities for handling firmware updates during low battery situations.” But as with most firmware updates, there are always issues, known and unknown, that remain unresolved until a future update — or, as in this case, a simple registry hack — gets rid of them.

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NVIDIA TegraZone Comes to Windows RT, Brings Tegra 3-optimized Gaming Goodness

Posted 12/27/2012 at 5:22am | by Pulkit Chandna

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After Android success, NVIDIA now hopes its TegraZone app will make a splash on Windows RT

Having its Tegra 3 SoC chosen for two platform-defining tablets, the Google Nexus 7 and the Microsoft Surface RT, has got to be one of the highlights of NVIDIA's year. However, the company is not content merely with design wins. This is evident from its TegraZone initiative, a one-stop shop for Tegra-optimized games and outright exclusives. Till now restricted to Android, the TegraZone app is now available for the two-month-old Windows RT.

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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

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

Surface RT's future is anything but clear.

Microsoft Surface RT sales “significantly lower” than shipments

IDC says tablet shipments grew by three quarters in 2012.

Bill Gates feels confident in Microsoft’s new Direction, and has no desire to return as CEO.

Simple Windows RT registry tweak makes the Microsoft Surface RT a “touch” more responsive

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