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Tag: Surface flop

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…

Microsoft likely to pull plug on moribund Surface tablet business, sources say

Thursday, October 9, 2014 9:54 amThursday, October 9, 201477 Comments

iPad roadkill…

Desperate Microsoft offers $650 store credit for MacBook Air for Surface Pro 3 trade-in

Monday, June 23, 2014 3:25 pmMonday, June 23, 201448 Comments

Microsoft is offering a limited time Surface Pro 3 promotion via which users…

Microsoft needs to give up trying to target Apple’s iPad

Monday, December 30, 2013 2:28 pmMonday, December 30, 201314 Comments

Instead of making head-to-head commercials against Apple, Microsoft…

Former Apple exec: Has Microsoft gone nuts?

Friday, December 20, 2013 2:01 pmFriday, December 20, 201336 Comments

Of all of the dramas currently unfolding in the tech world right now…

Ford’s Alan Mulally not looking likely as Microsoft CEO

Thursday, December 5, 2013 6:02 pmThursday, December 5, 201323 Comments

Also on Microsoft’s final candidate list are Stephen Elop…

Desperate Microsoft wants to pay you at least $200 to trade in your iPad for a Surface tablet

Friday, September 13, 2013 10:25 amFriday, September 13, 201339 Comments

After recruiting Siri to bad-mouth the iPad, beleaguered Microsoft

Microsoft plans September 23 Surface tablet event

Monday, September 9, 2013 5:43 pmMonday, September 9, 201368 Comments

Microsoft on Monday sent out invitations to a September 23 event…

Liquidation: Microsoft permanently slashes price on poor-selling ‘Surface Pro’ tablet to $799

Friday, August 30, 2013 4:01 pmFriday, August 30, 201336 Comments

Microsoft has already taken a $900 million charge on unsold Surface inventory…

Microsoft now dumping non-selling Surface RT tablets into schools

Wednesday, August 21, 2013 9:26 pmWednesday, August 21, 201350 Comments

Microsoft is looking to make a bigger splash in the education segment…

Class-action suit filed against Microsoft over Surface tablet flop

Tuesday, August 13, 2013 4:28 pmTuesday, August 13, 201333 Comments

The law firm Robbins Geller Rudman & Dowd has filed a class-action suit against Microsoft…

Desperate Microsoft cuts Surface Pro tablet prices; could signal even more losses

Tuesday, August 6, 2013 5:00 pmTuesday, August 13, 201356 Comments

Just over two weeks after Microsoft (MSFT) took a $900 million charge…

As iPad kills Microsoft Surface tablets, Bill Gates claims: ‘a lot of iPad users are frustrated’

Wednesday, July 31, 2013 11:09 amWednesday, July 31, 201378 Comments

The iPad is one of the most popular consumer products of all time…

Microsoft’s Surface sales figures are in, and they’re a total disaster

Tuesday, July 30, 2013 10:00 pmTuesday, July 30, 201369 Comments

Microsoft’s total Surface revenue for all of fiscal 2013 amounted to just…

Microsoft CEO Steve Balmer admits ‘iPad killer’ Surface RT tablet a huge mistake

Monday, July 29, 2013 1:29 pmMonday, July 29, 201360 Comments

Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer has finally admitted the obvious…

The Apple double-standard report

Friday, July 26, 2013 4:01 pmFriday, July 26, 201320 Comments

Imagine, just imagine, that Apple had to take a one billion dollar write-down…

Did we all just witness Windows start to die?

Monday, July 22, 2013 6:38 pmMonday, July 22, 2013103 Comments

Windows as a post-PC operating system is dead…

Beleaguered Microsoft shares hit by biggest sell-off in 13 years; $36 billion chopped off company value

Friday, July 19, 2013 6:01 pmFriday, July 19, 201379 Comments

Microsoft Corp shares fell more than 12 percent on Friday…

Weak Windows PC market catches up to Microsoft

Friday, July 19, 2013 10:01 amFriday, July 19, 201324 Comments

The personal computer business has been in the worst downturn since the industry’s inception…

Microsoft earnings, sales badly miss expectations; $900 million inventory writedown on Surface tablet flop

Thursday, July 18, 2013 6:08 pmThursday, September 5, 201355 Comments

Microsoft’s fourth quarter earnings and sales missed expectations by a wide margin…

Nielsen: Microsoft pays the most to market its products

Wednesday, July 17, 2013 3:02 pmWednesday, July 17, 201321 Comments

Microsoft has not been shy in the past to spend its money on advertising…

Apple’s iTunes snub is yet another nail in Microsoft’s Windows RT coffin

Monday, May 13, 2013 10:47 am13 Comments

Windows RT just can’t catch a break. Last week’s big news…

Microsoft wants Apple to make iTunes for Windows 8 tablets, but it’s not coming ‘any time soon’

Friday, May 10, 2013 11:00 amFriday, May 10, 201340 Comments

Microsoft wants Apple to create a “Metro” version of iTunes…

The difference between Steve Jobs and Bill Gates

Tuesday, May 7, 2013 1:37 pmTuesday, May 7, 201328 Comments

Yesterday Bill Gates took some heat in the media when he proclaimed….

Bill Gates: A lot of iPad users frustrated because ‘they can’t type’ or ‘create documents’

Monday, May 6, 2013 12:39 pmMonday, May 6, 2013102 Comments

Microsoft Chairman Bill Gates told CNBC on Monday that Microsoft…

Apple’s iPad expands lead in tablet usage at the expense of Amazon, Samsung, Microsoft Surface

Thursday, April 18, 2013 6:28 pm38 Comments

Apple is not just fending off tablet competitors, it’s advancing on them…

Stick a fork in Microsoft’s Windows, it’s done

Wednesday, April 17, 2013 9:31 amWednesday, April 17, 201343 Comments

Calling the latest operating system a ‘failure’ and Microsoft’s leaders ‘idiots’…

Microsoft’s latest phone chief says Apple’s iOS is ‘boring’

Tuesday, April 16, 2013 4:31 pmTuesday, April 16, 201355 Comments

Microsoft Corp.’s top mobile-phone executive said its Windows Phone…

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