Comments on: Morgan Stanley: Microsoft will sell 3 million Surface tablets in 2012, 9 million in 2013

By: Jeff II

Jeff II — Thu, 18 Oct 2012 22:43:15 +0000

I seem to recall when I bought my Apple II back in 1978 that I had to up the RAM to 32k because Woz’ newly-written DOS had a 10k overhead…

By: Jason

Jason — Thu, 18 Oct 2012 22:39:57 +0000

They gonna call it the Vaginormous device?

By: Jeff II

Jeff II — Thu, 18 Oct 2012 22:38:04 +0000

Hey, Redmond has pretty strict air quality laws so smoking 2.9 mil won’t happen there.

By: Tom Bamford

Tom Bamford — Thu, 18 Oct 2012 20:14:53 +0000

Typical fat-boy armchair analyst crap.

By: DustyMac

DustyMac — Thu, 18 Oct 2012 14:23:58 +0000

My daughter experienced her first ever Kernel Panic the other day. She had no idea what it was. My wife, who is a very heavy Mac user has never seen one.

BTW, a Kernel Panic is the Mac equivalent of a BSOD.

By: ConfusedCountry

ConfusedCountry — Thu, 18 Oct 2012 14:01:08 +0000

Although I did read that more Democrats have iPhones and more Republicans have Android. I have no idea what kind of person has Microsoft, but they can usually be found on Apple Forums

By: WetFX

WetFX — Thu, 18 Oct 2012 13:49:56 +0000

Online too. That still does not put them in; BB, Wal-Mart, Target, Verizon, AT&T, Sprint… No one will be able to compare them to iPad or Android tablets. The Win8 tabs that do go there will be a few OEMs, not MS. When MS fans realize that it is not full Win8 and their old software won’t run on it; Office is limited and mostly in the cloud, this will kill it. The price of the Pro will be true test.

By: MuppetGate

MuppetGate — Thu, 18 Oct 2012 12:25:14 +0000

Yes, but how many did they actually sell? Selling out is easy when you don’t have many to begin with.

By: Bob

Bob — Thu, 18 Oct 2012 11:09:59 +0000

Is that you Paul Thurrott? Give it up already!

By: Bob

Bob — Thu, 18 Oct 2012 11:07:05 +0000

Well, well, well. You love Micro-fluff so much much you’re on an Apple forum? Good for you.

By: aToMac

aToMac — Thu, 18 Oct 2012 06:08:13 +0000

They spend $100 for each tabled stuffed into channel.

By: correctu

correctu — Thu, 18 Oct 2012 05:00:26 +0000

Enjoy your Partridge Family Schoolbus user interface in Windows 8 I hope it gives you sunspots.

By: Zeke

Zeke — Thu, 18 Oct 2012 04:52:08 +0000

So MSFT is going to spend about $100 in advertising for each tablet sold? That’s the biggest joke ever told!

By: fscuttle

fscuttle — Thu, 18 Oct 2012 04:46:20 +0000

This surface really looks like one clunky pos.

By: Jexhu

Jexhu — Thu, 18 Oct 2012 04:35:36 +0000

First day of pre order microsoft sold out of windows surface RT.
http://www.wired.com/gadgetlab/2012/10/microsoft-sells-out-of-500-surface-rt-pre-orders-in-one-day/

By: Robert

Robert — Thu, 18 Oct 2012 02:20:06 +0000

As opposed to iPhones and iPads which are either sold on ebay with broken screens or discarded to the rubbish because they’re not the latest?

By: Robert

Robert — Thu, 18 Oct 2012 02:18:24 +0000

Not they’re not, get your facts right!!

By: silverhawk1

silverhawk1 — Thu, 18 Oct 2012 01:55:17 +0000

They might have 400 million Windows 8 sold, but that’s if Wells Fargo and Bank of America update the OS in their ATM’s.

By: ckan

ckan — Thu, 18 Oct 2012 00:53:16 +0000

u r right

apple board, be careful, msft will sell 9 million. nobody will buy ipad

never heard this joke in this century

By: Meh

Meh — Thu, 18 Oct 2012 00:53:13 +0000

Zune was going to be the iPod killer. Long live Zune!

By: Golden

Golden — Thu, 18 Oct 2012 00:53:00 +0000

Now hold on just a minute. That can’t be right! Microsoft’s very own Steve Ballmer told us that 400 million tablets and phones would be running Windows 8! 400 million!

http://allthingsd.com/20120905/ballmer-in-a-year-400-million-devices-will-be-running-the-latest-windows-os/

That means that Nokia and company need to sell 390+million phones! Pronto!

So here we are, ten years after Steve Ballmer took the reins. MS stock is about $29…almost exactly where it was a decade ago. Nice job Stevie boy!

By: silverhawk1

silverhawk1 — Thu, 18 Oct 2012 00:21:00 +0000

You have that absolutely right, and there is a mouse for it.
“Microsoft says its new ‘Surface’ tablet computer will be more like a traditional computer than other ultra-portable devices, such as Apple’s segment-leading iPad.”
http://www.infopackets.com/news/business/microsoft/2012/20120803_microsoft_surface_tablet_gets_new_mouse_keyboard.htm

By: feral

feral — Thu, 18 Oct 2012 00:18:52 +0000

Gary blowjob is that you??

By: feral

feral — Thu, 18 Oct 2012 00:18:06 +0000

he bust all the goblins for trolling!

By: MSFT Rules

MSFT Rules — Thu, 18 Oct 2012 00:08:16 +0000

Try 7 million. The most gorgeous well designed tablet to ever make its way to the market. iPads are for iSheep and iSheep are all Democrats.

By: MSFT Rules

MSFT Rules — Thu, 18 Oct 2012 00:05:30 +0000

iSheep are so full of themselves. Democrats I say Democrats!

By: kingmel

kingmel — Wed, 17 Oct 2012 23:58:39 +0000

Several years later and the best that Microsoft can do is to roughly match Apple’s iPad prices? Yeah, that’s the way to break into a market and attempt to challenge the market leader. Good luck with that…

By: ConfusedCountry

ConfusedCountry — Wed, 17 Oct 2012 23:29:43 +0000

I don’t think the Surface will beat the iPad, but I wouldn’t be surprised if it does pretty well. If a billion dollars worth of Advertising can buy an election, I have every reason to believe it will influence many people.

Don’t forget, people who read (and comment) on this site are probably much more technically knowledgeable than most of the people seeing the commercials.

I still meet people in Best Buy who truly believe that Microsoft is “The Computer Company” and Dells are nice machines.

Just wait until all these ads hit just before x-mas. I believe it will sell. (but with $1 billion in ads to stupid people, it may sell, but how on earth can they make a profit?–but that’s a different story)

By: silverhawk1

silverhawk1 — Wed, 17 Oct 2012 23:22:43 +0000

How about the Ballmer version? It’s a “Huge Ass” device.

By: Jubei

Jubei — Wed, 17 Oct 2012 23:20:29 +0000

It’s being retooled. Coming out soon, Microsoft Bigger Ass Table for consumers. The Pro version is the Microsoft Gigantor Ass Table, including 6 Car Battery Packs to extend your Big Ass Pleasure Time!

By: Morgan Stanley is one of ...

Morgan Stanley is one of ... — Wed, 17 Oct 2012 23:12:11 +0000

… many – the majority – mutual fund providers who feature MSFT in the Top 10% of their portfolios. This stock has been drifting down like an Autumn leaf for over a decade now yet they can’t see their way clear to reduce their positions, much less sell it off. Of COURSE they claim to be optimistic.

By: G5Man

G5Man — Wed, 17 Oct 2012 23:08:47 +0000

Many people seem to miss the fact that 32 GB is the smallest available for one reason: The bloated mess of an OS takes up a significant chunk of that space.

Imagine if they launched a 16 GB version. 6 GB of useable space! YAY.

By: ken1w

ken1w — Wed, 17 Oct 2012 22:56:57 +0000

Well, yes… If Microsoft manufactures 3 million tablets for this initial launch, they will eventually get sold when the price drops low enough, just as all the HP Touchpads eventually got sold for $99. They can even stuff the channels during 2012 and claim they “shipped” 3 million during 2012, and do the fire sale after the holidays…

Meanwhile, Apple will SELL almost every iPad they produce at FULL retail price, as soon as they are produced. Unit sales statistics are misleading, because a tablet sold during the fire sale counts the same as one sold at full price. Amazon and Google are trying to avoid the fire sale by setting the initial price at money-losing fire sale levels (with a hope of making a profit some other way). Microsoft is predictably going “old school” and trying the strategy that did not work for ANY previous competitor that tried to go head-to-head with iPad.

By: HolyMackerel

HolyMackerel — Wed, 17 Oct 2012 22:41:33 +0000

Balmer “$500, and no keyboard… I like our plan”. Seems he agrees with Apple now, playing catchup, albeit in tablets.

By: peterblood71

peterblood71 — Wed, 17 Oct 2012 22:18:21 +0000

Sell? No, no no, you mean SHIP!

By: peterblood71

peterblood71 — Wed, 17 Oct 2012 22:17:37 +0000

Why hasn’t someone Photoshopped this already!?

By: peterblood71

peterblood71 — Wed, 17 Oct 2012 22:16:44 +0000

Nah he wadn’t being sereeous! That would make him look like a big fat idjit galoot!

By: jooon

jooon — Wed, 17 Oct 2012 22:01:14 +0000

“Sell” 3 million Surface tablets, or stuff 3 million into the retail channel?

By: russ

russ — Wed, 17 Oct 2012 21:54:57 +0000

They once said they’d sell 3 million big ass tables as well. In the end it was closer to 30.

By: Only You

Only You — Wed, 17 Oct 2012 21:52:03 +0000

That’s a lot.

By: DRMSSDB

DRMSSDB — Wed, 17 Oct 2012 21:51:37 +0000

If you really want a keyboard that bad, you really are not looking for a tablet, but an ultrabook or a MacBook Air.

By: Mugwump

Mugwump — Wed, 17 Oct 2012 21:46:11 +0000

Yep, it will sell into the channel 3 million tablets, with 2.9 million of them eventually returned into a giant smelter in Redmond.

By: Figurative

Figurative — Wed, 17 Oct 2012 21:42:29 +0000

Only WiFi for now. Not a serious effort.

By: Bizarroballmer

Bizarroballmer — Wed, 17 Oct 2012 21:41:00 +0000

They’re only selling this in ms stores…ouch…not much of a fighting chance!

By: Synth

Synth — Wed, 17 Oct 2012 21:35:58 +0000

With the current iPad lineup, the new iPad mini and the Nook, Nexus and Kindle, I don’t see how the Surface has a snowball’s chance in Hades.

If they had been able to price it at $399 with the KB/cover, maybe.

Then comes iPad 4 in the spring.

I’m guessing the Surface will be on a RIM/HPalm fire sale trajectory by March at the latest.

By: Nev Jackson

Nev Jackson — Wed, 17 Oct 2012 21:30:46 +0000

AND WHAT DID ‘BIG EARS’ DO THEN ‘NODDY’ ?

By: jooon

jooon — Wed, 17 Oct 2012 21:28:43 +0000

This is hilarious! Microsoft will supposedly sell 3 million Surface tablets in 2 months? What kind of crack is that guy smoking.

By: Bob

Bob — Wed, 17 Oct 2012 21:26:43 +0000

Can’t wait. That is, I can’t wait for all those users of the Surface to get Blue Screens Of Death, massive security updates every two hours and wow, a portable device with a keyboard?? Yikes. If 100 folks buy this I’d be surprised!

By: iSundanceTaos

iSundanceTaos — Wed, 17 Oct 2012 21:26:17 +0000

I am waiting for the world’s 1st Windows 8 tablet BSOD message.

By: Vatdoro

Vatdoro — Wed, 17 Oct 2012 21:24:26 +0000

Ahahahahahah! Wow. That was good one!

Wait, were you being serious?