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Tag: flop

Can beleaguered Microsoft really go head-to-head with Apple?

Thursday, September 5, 2013 4:01 pmThursday, September 5, 201330 Comments

No.

Why Microsoft’s Surface utterly failed and Apple’s iPad succeeded wildly

Friday, July 19, 2013 1:02 pmFriday, July 19, 201350 Comments

Microsoft has announced that it was taking a $900 million write-down on Surface tablets…

Best Buy slashes price on beleaguered BlackBerry’s Z10 phone flop

Friday, July 12, 2013 6:01 pmFriday, July 12, 201316 Comments

Best Buy Co has cut the price of BlackBerry Ltd.’s Z10 smartphone…

Microsoft slashes price of its moribund Surface RT tablet

Thursday, July 11, 2013 9:36 pmThursday, July 11, 201332 Comments

Microsoft is slashing the price of its anemic-selling Surface RT tablet…

iPad roadkill: Microsoft’s Surface flops despite relentless advertising

Thursday, July 11, 2013 1:03 pmThursday, July 11, 201345 Comments

Microsoft announced Surface last summer to great fanfare…

Beleaguered Dell shares crumble

Friday, July 5, 2013 7:28 pmFriday, July 5, 201342 Comments

Shares of Dell Inc. slid Friday following reports that CEO Michael Dell…

Beleaguered BlackBerry shares plummet most since 2000 on Z10 phone flop

Saturday, June 29, 2013 9:28 amSaturday, June 29, 201313 Comments

BlackBerry (BBRY)’s shares tumbled the most since 2000…

Microsoft massively discounts anemic-selling Surface RT tablets to schools worldwide

Tuesday, June 18, 2013 6:34 pm42 Comments

Microsoft has announced a new program that will see schools around…

Microsoft gives away 10,000 Surface RT tablets at education conference

Monday, June 17, 2013 6:02 pmMonday, June 17, 201365 Comments

Microsoft will give attendees at the…

Microsoft brings back ‘start’ button in attempt to reverse declining Windows sales

Thursday, May 30, 2013 1:02 pmThursday, May 30, 201368 Comments

Microsoft Corp is bringing back the Windows ‘start’ button…

AT&T cuts ‘Facebook phone’ price to 99-cents just weeks after launch

Thursday, May 9, 2013 4:02 pmThursday, May 9, 201321 Comments

Operators typically wait longer than a few weeks after a launch before discounting phones…

Microsoft cautiously preps 2nd-generation of Surface tablet flops with smaller displays

Thursday, May 2, 2013 9:25 amThursday, May 2, 201335 Comments

Microsoft is expected to announce second-generation Surface tablets…

Windows RT tablet prices drop, pointing to failure of Windows RT

Thursday, April 4, 2013 2:31 pmThursday, April 4, 201320 Comments

Prices of Windows RT devices have started falling…

Why Microsoft’s Windows 8 is an even bigger flop than Windows Vista

Tuesday, April 2, 2013 10:28 am41 Comments

Windows 8 is doing significantly worse than Microsoft’s biggest failure, Windows Vista…

As Surface and other Windows tablets flop, Microsoft slashes Windows 8 and Office prices for OEMs

Thursday, March 7, 2013 3:30 pmThursday, March 7, 201328 Comments

Microsoft Corp. has recently been offering price breaks on its Windows 8…

The late, not-so-great Microsoft Windows 8

Thursday, March 7, 2013 2:43 pmThursday, March 7, 201330 Comments

by the end of 2013, Windows will be only the third most popular computer OS in the world…

J.C. Penney posts large loss as sales sink further

Wednesday, February 27, 2013 6:02 pmWednesday, February 27, 201324 Comments

The bill for J.C. Penney Co.’s first year under Chief Executive Ron Johnson…

Microsoft ‘sells out’ of undisclosed number of Surface Pro units

Monday, February 11, 2013 1:01 pmMonday, February 11, 201340 Comments

Microsoft appears to be ‘sold out’ of its horridly-reviewed flop…

Microsoft’s Windows RT: Circling the bowl

Tuesday, February 5, 2013 10:05 pmWednesday, February 6, 201319 Comments

Over the past several days, Windows CFO and CMO Tami Reller…

Wells Fargo analyst: All the reasons beleaguered BlackBerry’s BB10 will fail

Thursday, January 31, 2013 4:45 pm18 Comments

The entity formerly known as Beleaguered RIM’s launch of its new Blackberry 10 smartphones is too little, too late…

To stellar CEO Steve Ballmer, Office without iPad support makes ‘a lot of sense’

Wednesday, January 30, 2013 1:01 pmWednesday, January 30, 201366 Comments

The question of Office for iOS has burned for a year, but a release…

Crash and burn: Windows RT tablet sales in 2012 likely to total less than one million units

Wednesday, January 30, 2013 11:30 amWednesday, January 30, 201345 Comments

Actual sales of Windows RT tablets, including, but not limited to Microsoft’s own Surface RT, so far are likely to be less than one million units…

Windows 8 bloat: Microsoft’s 64GB Surface Pro will offer users only 23GB of available storage space

Tuesday, January 29, 2013 8:01 pmTuesday, January 29, 201341 Comments

Microsoft’s Surface RT tablet was knocked for the dearth of storage…

Windows 8 face-plant: U.S. notebook and desktop sales down 21% in Windows 8’s first month

Thursday, November 29, 2012 4:24 pmThursday, November 29, 201235 Comments

Windows 8 has delivered no bump to flagging consumer PC sales in the U.S., a retail research analyst said today…

Microsoft’s Surface tablet flops, orders reportedly cut in half

Thursday, November 29, 2012 12:32 pmThursday, November 29, 201270 Comments

Other Windows RT-based tablet orders also seeing weak performance…

More blood on Apple iPod’s Click Wheel: Zune hardware gone from Microsoft site (Updated: They’re baaack!)

Monday, October 3, 2011 2:21 pmMonday, October 3, 201133 Comments

Microsoft has removed references to all Zune hardware from the official Zune website…

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