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Tag: Windows RT

Microsoft finally set to axe its boneheaded Windows RT

Thursday, July 24, 2014 1:28 pmThursday, July 24, 201421 Comments

Microsoft never made a compelling case for why you should buy…

Losses mount for beleaguered Microsoft’s moribund Surface tablet

Monday, April 28, 2014 9:35 pmMonday, April 28, 201446 Comments

Economies of scale continued to elude Microsoft’s Surface line…

Apple is winning the OS war

Wednesday, December 4, 2013 10:45 amWednesday, December 4, 201357 Comments

Apple is winning the OS wars, setting the agenda for the future of computing…

Microsoft looks ready to kill off Windows RT

Tuesday, November 26, 2013 6:07 pmTuesday, November 26, 201340 Comments

Do not risk your hard-earned money on Microsoft’s dead end products…

Beleaguered Microsoft pulls Windows RT 8.1 update; crashes Surface tablets

Monday, October 21, 2013 9:01 amMonday, October 21, 201354 Comments

Microsoft has pulled a Windows update from its website…

Years after being shown by Apple, poor Microsoft still doesn’t understand what tablets are for

Tuesday, September 24, 2013 4:00 pmTuesday, September 24, 201350 Comments

Microsoft aims to solidify their hold on a key niche market: People who hate fun…

Microsoft unveils Surface 2 tablet; nobody cares about this one, either

Tuesday, September 24, 2013 8:35 amTuesday, September 24, 201365 Comments

This will once again not end well for Microsoft…

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…

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 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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

Microsoft’s moribund Windows RT rasps out death rattle

Tuesday, July 9, 2013 3:31 pmTuesday, July 9, 201332 Comments

The death knell is sounding for Microsoft’s Windows RT operating system…

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…

What is wrong with Microsoft?

Tuesday, June 25, 2013 3:10 pmTuesday, June 25, 201328 Comments

Microsoft’s had a tough year, and it’s not even half over…

More nonsense about OS X from the pundits

Friday, June 21, 2013 4:31 pmFriday, June 21, 201333 Comments

I could probably devote every one of my columns to the silly comments…

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…

Desperate Microsoft marks down Windows, dangles free Office in bid to move tablets

Wednesday, June 5, 2013 6:01 pmWednesday, June 5, 201339 Comments

Microsoft today confirmed what many analysts suspected, that it has cut prices…

Windows 8 continues to flop hard

Monday, June 3, 2013 4:10 pmMonday, June 3, 201343 Comments

Windows 8 continues to fall behind…

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…

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…

Microsoft’s Surface tablets said to fall far short of predictions

Friday, March 15, 2013 11:32 amFriday, March 15, 201344 Comments

Microsoft Corp. has sold about 1.5 million Surface devices…

Analyst: Microsoft’s Surface RT on track to join Zune and Kin in the great consumer electronics discount rack in the sky

Wednesday, March 13, 2013 11:32 amWednesday, March 13, 201359 Comments

Microsoft has never had a good track record with consumer hardware…

Analyst: Microsoft should pull the plug on poor-selling Windows RT tablets, admit defeat

Tuesday, March 12, 2013 3:34 pm35 Comments

Samsung already has pulled its Windows RT tablets from some markets in Europe…

Can Microsoft executives really be that stupid?

Thursday, March 7, 2013 1:01 pmThursday, March 7, 201338 Comments

So here we go again…

Samsung likely to pull the plug on its failing Windows RT tablet in Europe

Wednesday, March 6, 2013 6:45 pm24 Comments

By now it’s clear that the early reception to Windows RT has been…

As Surface flops, Microsoft CFO says there’s no ‘Plan B’

Thursday, February 14, 2013 5:08 pmThursday, February 14, 201346 Comments

Microsoft Corp has not made much of a dent in Apple Inc’s dominance…

The mobile train has left the Windows 8 platform behind

Thursday, February 7, 2013 10:13 pm43 Comments

According to Canaccord Genuity, Apple took in 69% of the handset profits in 2012…

Microsoft’s ‘Surface Pro’ tablet slammed by negative reviews

Thursday, February 7, 2013 10:20 am21 Comments

U.S. tech writers have given Microsoft Corp’s new Surface tablet-laptop hybrid…

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…

IDC: Apple dominates worldwide tablet market with 43.6% unit share

Thursday, January 31, 2013 8:44 amThursday, January 31, 201326 Comments

Worldwide tablet shipments outpaced predictions reaching a record total of 52.5 million units…

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…

Steve Jobs would have drowned somebody in the Pacific Ocean if this happened at Apple

Tuesday, January 8, 2013 2:33 pm33 Comments

The geeks at the Consumer Electronics Show (CES) in Las Vegas worked themselves into a lather…

Beleaguered Microsoft’s Surface tablet flops

Wednesday, December 12, 2012 12:35 pmWednesday, December 12, 201270 Comments

Apple’s market-creating iPad continues to dominate…

Philip Greenspun: Microsoft’s Windows 8 is a Christmas gift for someone you hate

Friday, December 7, 2012 9:29 amFriday, December 7, 201224 Comments

A dog’s breakfast of a user interface…

MKM Partners cuts Microsoft price target, estimates on lower than expected Surface, Windows 8 sales

Wednesday, December 5, 2012 2:32 pm17 Comments

Sales of Microsoft’s Surface tablet computer appear to be tracking lower than

Why Microsoft’s Surface tablet is doomed

Wednesday, December 5, 2012 10:46 amWednesday, December 5, 201239 Comments

Why you should think twice about betting your business on Microsoft’s new device…

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