“Microsoft is about to take the ax to one of the stupidest products it ever created,” David Goldman reports for CNNMoney.
“CEO Satya Nadella said Tuesday that Microsoft will combine all of its various Windows iterations into one unified version next year. That, thankfully, will mean the end of Windows RT, MIcrosoft’s woefully executed and dreadfully received operating system for tablets,” Goldman reports. “Windows RT was supposed to usher in the tablet era for Microsoft. But Windows RT has two fatal flaws: it’s missing crucial apps, and it’s poorly designed. Unsurprisingly, the stripped-down operating system failed to take off. (Actually, that’s an understatement: Microsoft took a $900 million writedown last year because of awful Surface RT sales, the only mainstream tablet than ran Windows RT.)”
Goldman reports, “Microsoft never made a compelling case for why you should buy a Windows RT tablet over a rival tablet except for the fact that it runs Office. And that argument just went out the window when Microsoft brought Office to the iPad earlier this year. That’s why Windows RT turned into one of the biggest flops in Microsoft’s history. And that’s saying a lot, considering Microsoft conjured up such duds as Windows Vista, Microsoft Bob and Clippy. ”
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MacDailyNews Take: Once again, unreliable, floundering, clueless Microsoft teaches its dwindling number of pigeons a valuable lesson:
Erratic Microsoft will pull the rug out from under you at any time (Zune, Kin One, Kin Two, Surface RT, Windows RT). Do not risk your hard-earned money on clueless Microsoft’s dead-end products because scatterbrained Microsoft most certainly will Osborne you sooner than later.
GWAK.
As we wrote, as presciently as usual, over two years ago on July 10, 2012:
Is it just us or is instilling confidence among potential tablet buyers and app developers not one of Microsoft’s strong points? Microsoft’s patented method of wildly over-promising and woefully under-delivering just isn’t going to cut it in this new Post-PC world that Steve Jobs hath created.
Watching this Surface debacle unfold is like watching a clown car empty out. At the end, a sweaty Ballmer T. Clown will pop up through the moonroof and scream, “Ta da! It was all just a big fat joke! No, no, no, not me, the Surface!” Then, after laughing maniacally and for far, far too long, he’ll pop a light bulb into his mouth and wander aimlessly offstage…
Stay tuned, there are a lot of clowns packed into that old car.
[Thanks to MacDailyNews Reader “Edward W.” for the heads up.]