Microsoft's Surface sales figures are in, and they're hideous

Re:Microsoft's Surface sales figures are in, and they're hid... by yulaow on Tuesday July 30, 2013 @09:55PM (#6131410)

Let's talk about office

MS was like "Whoa we are giving you the tablet with office 'cause you ever dreamed a tablet with office and you totally hate a tablet without office". Ballmer almost said something totally equal to it

Problem is, in the last year, market has showed that no one need a tablet with office and that office is not more a killer feature, mainly for the common users market (it has still sense in corporation market).

So they pushed and pushed on this feature when it was practically useless to convince anyone to buy an rt. This is another reason to blame failure ALSO on the marketing part of MS.

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Re:Microsoft's Surface sales figures are in, and they're hid... by jonaford on Tuesday July 30, 2013 @11:31PM (#6131750)

A tablet with office and a web browser was a great idea for corporates...and then they prevented RT from joining domains.

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Re:Microsoft's Surface sales figures are in, and they're hid... by venomsnake on Wednesday July 31, 2013 @02:34AM (#6132203)

Or running recompiled version of any LOB internal apps. They should have just made it proper windows and it could have been a hit.

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Re:Microsoft's Surface sales figures are in, and they're hid... by jonaford on Sunday August 04, 2013 @10:53PM (#6158161)

Are you thinking of something different to surface pro?

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