Sales of both versions of the Microsoft Surface tablet computer number just 1.5 million, four months after the software giant launched the devices in a fanfare of publicity. Furthermore, just 400,000 Surface Pros have been sold since its ...
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The grumbling of PC makers is getting louder with Windows 8 doing little to spark laptop sales. The latest complaints come from Jun Dong-Soo, President of Samsung‘s memory chip division, who had no kind words for Windows 8 during a ...
U.S. electronics dismantling site iFixit announced Tablet PC maintenance difficulty rankings, showing that Microsoft Surface Pro ranked at the end. iFixit scored over the most popular products, with 10 points as full. Higher scores ...
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Microsoft Corp. today announced that beginning late March the rollout of Surface will continue, bringing Surface RT with Windows RT to Japan, Mexico, New Zealand, Russia, Singapore and Taiwan and Surface Pro with Windows 8 Pro to Australia, ...
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Microsoft Surface RT is expected to be sold to consumers in Japan, this version can run the Microsoft Office RT and IE10 desktop applications, but only for application in the Windows app store. The price of 32GB version of the Surface RT ...
While first day sales for Microsoft's Surface RT tablet attracted a long line in Beijing back in October, demand for the device in China has been low, as shipments reached only 30,000 units during the fourth quarter, according to research ...
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Microsoft is losing out on up to $2.5bn (£1.6bn) of revenue by not rolling out its Microsoft Office suite to Apple tablets, a Morgan Stanley analyst has calculated. "Our conversations lead us to believe Microsoft will price for ...
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The Microsoft Surface Pro delivers on its promise to provide the most laptop-like performance yet from a tablet. But like most groundbreaking devices, it has flaws—including limited storage and hefty weight and size—that mean ...
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Microsoft Corp. announced the Microsoft Surface family of PCs is growing with Surface Pro, the newest member of the growing Surface family, along with a number of new products and accessories available tomorrow. Surface Pro with Windows 8 ...
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Microsoft's highly anticipated Surface Pro with Windows 8 will be on sale Saturday starting at $899 and will test the company's viability in the tablet market after the failure of the Surface RT. The Surface Pro tablet has an Intel Core ...
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Microsoft started selling its Surface Pro tablet on Saturday, and quickly exhausted its supply of the 128GB configuration. While the less expensive 64GB device was also listed as out of stock Saturday on Microsoft's online store, by ...
Microsoft will support its Surface Pro tablet until July 2017, or almost four-and-a-half years after its launch last weekend, the company's website confirmed. Like its predecessor the Surface RT, the Windows 8-powered Surface Pro sports a ...
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Last week, Microsoft made the clearest case yet for its Surface Pro tablet when a top Windows executive said it should be compared with not one, but two Apple devices. While analysts agreed that Microsoft's Surface Pro message was much ...
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Microsoft's $2 billion loan to Dell, one of its largest computer-making partners, will have an impact on how other OEMs view their Windows ecosystem collaborator, analysts said today. The extent of that impact, however, is unclear to the ...
Mozilla yesterday took another step toward delivering a "Metro" version of Firefox to Windows 8 users. Late Tuesday, Asa Dotzler, the Firefox desktop product manager, announced that a preliminary Metro browser had reached ...