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Standalone Surface RT Tablets Sell Out in One Day, Windows 8 Pro Models 'Coming Soon'

Posted 10/18/2012 at 8:55am | by Paul Lilly

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Surface Front Thumbnail Well that was fast, Despite all the speculation about Microsoft's pricing strategy for Surface, there were enough pre-order buyers to deplete whatever initial stock of the standalone 32GB model the Redmond company had set aside. Now when you go to order a 32GB Surface RT without a Touch Cover, the estimated delivery is "within 3 weeks" instead of October 26, which is when the other models will still arrive.

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Windows Boss Can't Resist Riding the Surface Like a Skateboard

Posted 10/17/2012 at 11:40pm | by Pulkit Chandna

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With just a few days left to go until the release of Windows 8 and the Microsoft-built Surface tablets, the Redmond-based company has donned its marketing hat. While the jury is still out on the amount Microsoft has earmarked for the Windows 8 marketing campaign, it is likely to be a large sum (some reports peg it at over $1 billion), especially considering how much Microsoft has riding on these two products. But wait, what exactly does Microsoft have “riding” on them?

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Microsoft Slips on Surface Pricing Strategy, Should Have Been More Aggressive

Posted 10/17/2012 at 8:12am | by Paul Lilly

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Microsoft Surface RT In case you haven't heard, Microsoft's Surface with Windows RT tablets are now available to pre-order, starting at $499 for the 32GB model sans Black Touch Cover. With the Touch Cover, the price jumps by a Benjamin to $599, and the 64GB version (with Touch Cover) is going for $699. Those are competitive price points compared to Apple's third generation iPad tablets, but as the Android camp found out, $499+ tablets are a tough sell.

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Microsoft's Surface RT Tablets Now Available to Pre-order

Posted 10/16/2012 at 1:51pm | by Paul Lilly

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Microsoft made a splash in cyberspace this morning when it temporarily revealed pre-order pricing for its Surface RT tablet line, only to inexplicably pull the listing offline. Well, once you let the cat out of the bag on the Internet, there's no putting it back in, so either Microsoft caved, or it was planning to go live with the pre-order site all along. Either way, the pre-order page is now back online, presumably for good.

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Pre-Order Page Reveals Microsoft Surface with Windows RT Starts at $499

Posted 10/16/2012 at 7:29am | by Paul Lilly

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Microsoft Surface Microsoft may have inadvertently confirmed the price points of its Surface RT tablets prematurely. For a brief time this morning, Surface RT tablets were up for pre-order on Microsoft's website, and since there are no take-backs or do-overs on the Internet, we now know what Microsoft's pricing strategy looks like. The cost of entry starts at $499 for the 32GB version without a Touch Cover.

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Office 2013 Reaches RTM Milestone

Posted 10/11/2012 at 10:51pm | by Pulkit Chandna

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On Thursday, Microsoft’s Kirk Koenigsbauer took to the Office Blog to announce a key milestone in the development of Office 2013, which he dubbed the “most ambitious” yet. The next iteration of Microsoft’s popular productivity suite has been released to manufacturing (RTM), he revealed in his blog post.

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Asustek's Windows 8 Tablets May Be Priced Out of Contention

Posted 09/18/2012 at 5:56am | by Pulkit Chandna

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During an investors conference last month, Asustek president Jerry Shen had said that if Microsoft launched its Surface tablet at the then much-rumored $199 price point, it would effectively jeopardize the survival of the Taiwanese PC vendor’s own Windows 8-based tablets. Now, a new report suggests Asus may have found a rather ingenious way of preventing Microsoft from doing so.

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Microsoft Outfitting Employees With All New Windows 8 Phones, Tablets, and PC’s

Posted 09/16/2012 at 6:28pm | by Justin Kerr

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Dogfooding is a term you hear applied to software companies quite often, however Microsoft is taking it to a whole new level. We’ve heard on more than one occasion that Microsoft believes they are betting the company on Windows 8, and what better way to go all in than to make your employees use it full time. Mandating Windows 8 use in the work place might sound like cruel and unusual punishment to those who disagreed with our mostly positive review of Microsoft’s new OS, but what if we told you it has an amazing upside?

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Windows RT Devices to Initially Ship with Preview Version of Office

Posted 09/13/2012 at 6:01pm | by Pulkit Chandna

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Initially, Windows RT devices, including Microsoft’s own “ARM-ed” Surface tablet, will only be available with a preview version of Office 2013 RT, Microsoft announced today in a post on the Office Next blog. But don’t scrap your Windows RT purchase plans yet because, starting in early November, these devices will be automatically updated with the final version of Office Home & Student 2013 RT.

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Dell Unleashes Trio of XPS Windows 8 Devices

Posted 08/30/2012 at 10:54pm | by Pulkit Chandna

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The second day of the ongoing Internationale Funkausstellung (IFA) trade show in Berlin once again belonged to Windows 8. Among the Windows 8 devices showcased on Thursday was a disparate trio of Dell XPS PCs: the Dell XPS 10 Windows RT tablet, the XPS Duo 12 convertible Ultrabook, and the XPS One 27 all-in-one PC.

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