Eight months after the launch of Microsoft's Surface line, the company has yet to turn a profit on its first foray into tablet manufacturing and sales, according to a Tuesday regulatory filing. Microsoft's annual report, filed yesterday ...
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Microsoft has revealed in a regulatory filing with the US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) that it achieved just $853m in Surface RT and Surface Pro sales during its 2013 fiscal year to the end of June. CEO Steve Ballmer had ...
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Microsoft's Surface tablet has earned the company less in revenue than it paid to write down unsold stocks of the device. The company said in a regulatory filing with the US Securities and Exchange Commission that the Surface had earned ...
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Both Apple- and Windows-branded tablets lost market share in the second quarter, each retreating in the face of increased pressure from Android, a market research analyst said today. In preliminary estimates for the quarter ending June ...
Editor's note: This story has been updated. An earlier version incorrectly stated that Asus makes the Surface RT tablet. Even Asus, which makes the VivoTab RT tablet, isn't impressed with sales results of Microsoft Windows RT-based ...
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Microsoft on Thursday took an unexpected $900 million charge to account for what it called "inventory adjustments" for the Surface RT, the poor-selling tablet that debuted last year. Later on in the day, Microsoft held a conference call ...
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Computerworld - Even as the market for Surface RT and other Windows RT tablets grows more dire by the day, chip supplier Nvidia said it remains bullish to the platform and is committed for the long term. Nvidia's commitment to Surface RT ...
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MICROSOFT has slashed prices of its Surface RT tables in Australia by up to 30 per cent, a saving of $170 locally. The price cuts are part of a global response to lacklustre sales and a concern about the RT's inability to run standard ...
Microsoft on Sunday slashed prices on its Surface RT tablets by as much as 30%, with the entry-level 32GB model selling for $349. The 64GB Surface RT was also discounted by $150, and now sells for $449, or 25% off its former price. When ...
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Microsoft is aiming to boost sales of its Surface tablet computers as it makes the devices available for business customers via the IT channel. In a blog post, director of Microsoft Surface, Cyril Belikoff, said that the software giant ...
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Microsoft is launching a channel partner program on Monday to help drive sales of its Surface tablet to companies, schools and other organizations. The program is operational now in the U.S. with a small set of partners and will be ...
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THEY?RE highly successful as consumer devices, but is Apple?s iPad cutting the mustard in the business world? Yesterday two restaurants in inner Sydney were spruiking the benefits of using Apple's iPad to manage everything from the taking ...
Microsoft today briefly previewed an Office application designed for the Windows "Modern," née "Metro," user interface (UI), and said it would launch the touch-enabled suite next year. "This is big," said Frank Gillett, an analyst ...
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Microsoft is close to another restructuring that could see several senior managers moved sideways or leaving the company as it reduces its number of business units from eight to four. The restructuring is being prepared by a small group ...
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As the consumerisation of IT takes a tighter grip on IT users' daily lives, and BYOD becomes an increasingly common way to work, the importance placed on developments in the devices market has grown, even in the last six months. Further ...
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