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Tag: Microsoft Surface

The Apple vs. Microsoft hardware double-standard pops up yet again

Friday, October 5, 2018 5:33 pm18 Comments

Across the last couple years, Apple’s new Macs have been roundly criticized for raising their prices…

South Carolina Gamecocks inundated with Apple iPads

Thursday, August 23, 2018 5:04 pmThursday, August 23, 20186 Comments

Usually, coaches don’t want players glued to their technology…

Gartner: Apple Mac posts 1.5% growth as worldwide PC shipments drop 1.4% in Q118

Thursday, April 12, 2018 4:25 pmThursday, April 12, 20189 Comments

Worldwide PC shipments totaled 61.7 million units in the first quarter of 2018…

Microsoft Surface Pro screens keep dying

Thursday, February 1, 2018 3:37 pm21 Comments

Microsoft Surface Pro 4 owners are up in arms over an ongoing epidemic…

NFL extends deal to saddle league with Microsoft Surface tablets for 6th year

Tuesday, December 5, 2017 10:28 amTuesday, December 5, 201714 Comments

Microsoft struck a five-year deal with the NFL to make Surface the official tablet of the league…

Microsoft claims ‘Surface Book 2’ is twice as powerful as Apple’s MacBook Pro

Tuesday, October 17, 2017 6:56 pm39 Comments

Microsoft today introduced the Surface Book 2…

Lenovo CEO: Microsoft will pull the plug on its beleaguered Surface hardware in 2019 at the latest

Thursday, October 5, 2017 12:25 pmThursday, October 5, 201719 Comments

Microsoft will quit its loss-making Surface hardware business by 2019, according to execs…

Microsoft’s defective Surface scandal intensifies

Tuesday, August 15, 2017 11:27 amTuesday, August 15, 201722 Comments

A leaked memo from Microsoft lists unusually high return rates for the Surface Book and the Surface Pro 4…

Leaked Microsoft memo reveals failure-prone Surface Book suffers from high return rates

Monday, August 14, 2017 11:27 amMonday, August 14, 201710 Comments

The Surface Book has suffered from consistently higher return rates than any other…

Consumer Reports: Apple makes the most reliable devices; steer clear of Microsoft’s unreliable Surface products

Thursday, August 10, 2017 4:02 pmThursday, August 10, 201721 Comments

The breakage rate for Microsoft Corp’s Surface devices is significantly worse than for other manufacturers…

Consumer Reports: Don’t buy Microsoft Surface products

Thursday, August 10, 2017 10:14 amThursday, August 10, 201728 Comments

Consumer Reports has pulled its recommendation of Microsoft’s Surface line of laptops and 2-in-1s…

J.D. Power: Microsoft ranks highest in tablet satisfaction

Thursday, April 6, 2017 3:09 pmThursday, April 6, 201758 Comments

Microsoft ranks highest in overall satisfaction in the J.D. Power 2017 U.S. Tablet Satisfaction Study…

Autodesk is totally committed to AutoCAD and The Mac

Tuesday, December 13, 2016 11:28 amTuesday, December 13, 201619 Comments

This week Autodesk released its 2017 versions of AutoCAD for the Mac…

Tim Bajarin: Rethinking the value of Apple’s iPad Pro and Microsoft’s Surface Pro

Wednesday, February 3, 2016 11:41 am20 Comments

Over the last two years, the technology to deliver a more robust 2-in-1 experience has gotten much better…

Autodesk talks AutoCAD, Mac and Apple’s powerful new iPad Pro

Friday, September 25, 2015 4:55 pmFriday, September 25, 201533 Comments

The iPad Pro is huge, it’s fast, it’s so clear – the 60 frames per second rendering is just tremendous…

Why Apple should partner with Microsoft

Monday, September 21, 2015 2:36 pm40 Comments

During a presentation at Dreamforce last week, Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella demonstrated…

Apple’s groundbreaking iPad Pro has nothing to do with Microsoft’s moribund Surface tablet

Friday, September 11, 2015 1:58 pmFriday, September 11, 201522 Comments

Microsoft and Apple have two very different strategy when it comes to mobile devices…

Apple iPads had physical keyboards three and a half years before Microsoft’s Surface tablet debut

Thursday, September 10, 2015 12:26 pmThursday, September 10, 201534 Comments

Apple’s iPad Pro is to Microsoft Surface as an iPad Pro is to a toaster-fridge….

CNN election commentators use Microsoft Surface – to hide the Apple iPads they’re actually using

Wednesday, November 5, 2014 12:54 pmWednesday, November 5, 201443 Comments

If you tuned in to CNN’s live election coverage Tuesday evening…

Beleaguered Microsoft will never learn, keeps attacking Apple

Thursday, August 14, 2014 11:47 am46 Comments

The myth that Satya Nadella has (or soon will) profoundly change Microsoft…

Beleaguered Microsoft’s strategy: Fire thousands of employees and then what?

Friday, July 18, 2014 1:28 pmMonday, July 21, 201463 Comments

This is not a very good time to be working at Microsoft…

Microsoft CEO Nadella to unveil latest stab at tablets with updates to moribund Surface product

Friday, May 16, 2014 1:00 pmFriday, May 16, 201425 Comments

Nadella risks hitting a rough patch next week when he unveils the latest models of the tepidly received Surface tablet.

Microsoft tries to revive floundering Windows by returning ‘start’ button in 8.1 update

Wednesday, June 26, 2013 6:19 pm73 Comments

Microsoft on Wednesday launched its latest effort to reverse…

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…

Microsoft Surface Pro to offer only half the battery life of Apple’s latest iPad with Retina display

Friday, November 30, 2012 1:38 pmFriday, November 30, 201256 Comments

When Microsoft launches the Windows 8 Pro version of its Surface tablet…

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…

Oprah tweets ‘love’ of Microsoft’s Surface from her Apple iPad

Monday, November 19, 2012 3:48 pmMonday, November 19, 201245 Comments

Oprah recently revealed that Microsoft’s Surface tablet is one of her…

iPad 4 has processing power to spare; benchmarks show plenty of speed; beats Google Nexus 7, Microsoft Surface

Tuesday, November 6, 2012 10:28 am22 Comments

Apple surprised us by announcing it was launching a fourth-generation iPa…

Microsoft to open ‘pop-up’ stores for Surface tablets Oct. 26, battle Apple at 29 locations

Thursday, October 4, 2012 4:00 pmThursday, October 4, 201266 Comments

Microsoft will go toe-to-toe with Apple…

Apple’s ‘iPad mini’ can be its ace in the hole

Friday, July 6, 2012 9:30 amFriday, July 6, 201233 Comments

Apple wins again…

Spec Shootout: Apple iPad vs. Google Nexus 7 vs. Amazon Kindle Fire vs. Microsoft Surface

Thursday, June 28, 2012 5:31 pmThursday, June 28, 201244 Comments

Google announced its first direct foray into the tablet market on Wednesday with the Nexus 7…

Apple losing its edge under CEO Tim Cook?

Monday, June 25, 2012 8:21 pmTuesday, June 26, 201282 Comments

From June 11- 15th Apple Inc. held its annual World Wide Developers Conference…

How Apple pushed Microsoft to create its ‘Surface’ tablets

Monday, June 25, 2012 10:21 amMonday, June 25, 201226 Comments

Appel basically forced Microsoft to concoct their Blurry Ass Tablet™ efforts…

Jason Schwarz: Top 10 reasons why Microsoft’s Surface is DOA

Friday, June 22, 2012 1:26 pmFriday, June 22, 201251 Comments

The only explanation for Ballmer still being the CEO of Microsoft is that he must have photos on Bill Gates…

Why I love Microsoft’s vaporware Surface tablet

Friday, June 22, 2012 11:03 am51 Comments

I don’t wish to suggest that Microsoft Surface is truly vaporware, but…

Fox News: Copier Microsoft is doomed to fail with Surface tablet

Tuesday, June 19, 2012 4:03 pm44 Comments

Microsoft has always mimicked other technologies, mostly Apple’s….

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