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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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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Monday morning, Microsoft announced that a plethora of new channel partners will?soon carry the company's Surface tablets. Mere hours later, one of the new resellers – CDW – was caught offering a previously unannounced variant ...
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Microsoft today confirmed that it has heavily discounted the Surface RT tablet to universities and K-12 schools, cutting the price of the entry-level model by 60%. It was the third time within a month that Microsoft has launched a Surface ...
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Microsoft today announced it's struck a deal with Best Buy to create 600 stores-within-stores in the U.S. and Canada to sell customers on Windows 8, the Surface tablet line, and new PCs and devices from other OEMs. The move, which ...
Microsoft and Apple last week kicked off promotions that may signal inventory clearing as they prepare their next generations of hardware. On Friday, Microsoft debuted a deal that hands a free keyboard-cover to buyers of its Surface RT ...
Microsoft is retooling the latest version of its Windows operating system to address complaints and confusion that have been blamed for deepening a slump in personal computer sales. The tune up won't be released to consumers and ...
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Microsoft's chief financial officer yesterday confirmed that the company and its hardware partners would ship smaller, lower-priced Windows tablets in the next months. "We are working closely with OEMs on a new suite of small touch ...
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Microsoft increased revenue across all its divisions in its third fiscal quarter, achieving an almost 20 percent revenue increase year on year. For the quarter ended March 31, 2013, Microsoft generated revenue of US$20.5 billion, up 18 ...
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Microsoft's profits for the third quarter jumped 19 per cent as its core Windows division reported higher sales, despite reports of tanking sales for personal computers. Microsoft's Q3 earnings report follows figures released by IT ...
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Microsoft is working on designs for a touch-enabled smart watch, joining a number of other large competitors like Samsung Electronics and Apple who are said to be working on similar devices, a newspaper reported. Executives at suppliers ...
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Microsoft will launch a new line of Surface tablets later this year, including one or more smaller 7-in. devices, according to the Wall Street Journal. The report was published just hours after research firms IDC and Gartner spelled out a ...
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MICROSOFT is moving to bolster its new tablet fleet as declining sales of PCs create concerns around sales of Windows 8. The Wall St Journal reports Microsoft is developing a fresh range of its Surface tablets, including a 7-inch screen ...
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Cloud storage gives you 24/7 access to your documents, photos, music, and you can access them wherever you are and on whatever device you're using. It also makes sharing photos, videos, and documents easy. Even better, a number of services ...
Steve Ballmer, CEO, Microsoft Cisco has apparently declared war on Microsoft’s unified communications platform, having chosen the eve of the first Lync conference to describe it as incomplete when compared to Cisco’s ...