“When I wrote that Microsoft had a potential Consumer Reports problem on its hands, I didn’t see — at least not yet — the tip of an iceberg,” Gene Steinberg writes for The Tech Night Owl. “Clearly the story has taken hold and has garnered attention in lots of places. It also raises the specter of a wider range of product defects that Microsoft should take seriously.”
“Now a published report quoting analyst Ben Bajarin, of Creative Strategies, provides yet a further reality check on CR’s conclusion that 25% of Microsoft Surface tablets and notebooks have developed serious defects during the first two years of ownership,” Steinberg writes. “As a result, CR will no longer recommend them.”
“And now there’s yet another published report claiming that a leaked memo from Microsoft lists unusually high return rates for the Surface Book and the Surface Pro 4,” Steinberg writes. “This is not just about owners having problems, but about buying products that result in customers sending them back. The memo was reportedly written by Panos Panay, a Microsoft VP, and published by Paul Thurrott, a known Windows advocate. If anything, you might expect Thurrott to skew his coverage positively towards Microsoft, so it’s particularly damning that he’d be the one to reveal such damaging news.”
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MacDailyNews Take: Again, what do you expect from a second-rate bloatware producer that got rich from poorly mimicking Apple’s Mac, then got run over by the iPhone and iPad? It’s no big surprise that Microsoft doesn’t know how to produce quality hardware either.
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Leaked Microsoft memo reveals failure-prone Surface Book suffers from high return rates – August 14, 2017
Under the heading of ‘Shit that does not surprise me’, is this.
You remember the color of the Zune don’t you?
You don’t? Almost nobody does!
MS ≠ hardware
What’s a zune?
Microsoft’s failed attempt and an iPod knockoff.
MS’s reply to the iPod.
The Zune did make it into Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2. Another looser.
Loser.
I was the owner of a “sh*t brown Zune bought at a closeout sale at Computer City. Bought it for the 30 GB drive and the fact that it had an FM radio for $100. Got about $20 worth of use out of it.
Now THAT’S comedy!!!
The only decent product Microsoft have ever made is the Trackball Explorer.
To be fair, Microsoft can sometimes achieve a decent product given enough iterations. The Zune was reportedly fairly good. And the Xbox got better over time, too – enough to sell decently well, anyway, after the red ring of death. But Microsoft started as a software company, and it ought to stick closer to its roots, I think.
I wonder how much profit M$ ended up with after the customer returns and such.
Soon to follow – class action lawsuit. There is no way that the lawyers can resist given the leaked M$ memo.
That was a great trackball. But now I’ve got a Magic Trackpad instead.
Panos Panay is a typical unreliable Greek. lets not forget Polish peasant Sinofsky who was the face of MS tablets when introduced to a select audience carefully selected to not make a scene
What does their nationality have to do with anything?
Clearly you win for the most unnecessarily racist post of the day! (Unless, of course, that was your intent all along, in which case you lose.)
Maybe a coincidence…but didn’t MS just announce a new upgrade program..where you turn your surface in for a new one every few years? Perhaps this is why?
They’ll have to shorten that to 2 years (or less).
lol! Good one.
Had the occasion to use a MSFT Surface over the weekend; everything I read was true: 1) too heavy (WAY too heavy) 2) not intuitive; 3)obscure command structure; 4) cumbersome. Previous usage of iPads a world apart – positively. The real world difference is simply unbelievable.
Surface is Sh!t. Microsoft is Sh!t. Shi7 is Sh!t.
Stay away from M!crosoft Sh!t.
Microsoft having trouble producing quality hardware? To do that they needed to produce quality software or operating systems. Windows has been a problem for years, & that’s being kind to them. I worked in the Tech Support field for 14 years, & rule one, if the Company or Corporation used Microsoft it was & is a great guarantee for work and a decent salary.