“If you tuned in to CNN’s live election coverage Tuesday evening, you may have noticed all the commentators using Surface Pro 3 tablets given to them by Microsoft — well, at least some of them,” Taylor Soper reports for GeekWire.
“Thanks to a partnership with CNN, Microsoft supplied the cable station with a handful of its tablets for the TV people to use,” Soper reports. “But it seems some were just too loyal to their iPads.”
“In September, Microsoft had to deal with sports commentators who kept referring to the Surface — which is being used on the sidelines by NFL coaches and players this season as part of Microsoft’s $400 million contract with the league — as ‘iPad-like tools,'” Soper reports. “Now it appears Microsoft needs to do some coaching with the political talking-heads.”
CNN commentators using Microsoft @surface tablets as iPad stand. Facepalm. pic.twitter.com/BPxWTf2zhI
— Adam (@adamUCF) November 5, 2014
Even the good people at CNN who have Microsoft surface tablets in their face hide iPad … – http://t.co/Sz6CpzLrEg pic.twitter.com/7Bam8uyI2G
— Melbourneer (@_Melbourneer_) November 5, 2014
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