According to IHS iSuppli, Microsoft Surface sales were well below the 1 million mark. Additionally, the tablet saw a large amount of returns. Shipments for the Surface RT, which runs on a neutered version of Windows, were about 1.25 million for the quarter, but actual sales to consumers were much lower, "maybe on the order of 55 to 60 percent of that figure," added Rhoda Alexander, ...
Read full articleQuote:Lol. I guess people realized how worthless it really is.
Additionally, the tablet saw a large amount of returns.
Originally posted by SomeBozo:I may be dating myself a little bit...but the old days of Microsoft were not all wonderful. Yes, DOS was a good OS for the day (stolen from someone else, but still, sold by MS)...and 2000, XP, and 7 were all at least functional if tweeked correctly and restarted enough...but that leaves 3.1, 95, 95OSR2, 98, 98SE, ME, and Vista...I ignore NT before 2000 because it was pretty useless outside of a corporate environment that would have been served much better by *nix.
I have to admit, it sure seems M$ sure name it well? On the $urface it looks good, but in reality, it is yet another hopeful piece of crap M$ is trying to push.
Whatever happened to the day that M$ putting out decent stuff? Oh ya, before Steve Balder, Sure seems to me most of the operating systems and other products M$ is putting out, well let's just say it sure seems Steve is giving the company a good scalping?
Originally posted by KillerBug:Ya i'm dating my self too, a person that helped me learn programming and mentored me worked for the company that sold MS-DOS to Bi11g...
Originally posted by SomeBozo:I may be dating myself a little bit...but the old days of Microsoft were not all wonderful. Yes, DOS was a good OS for the day (stolen from someone else, but still, sold by MS)...and 2000, XP, and 7 were all at least functional if tweeked correctly and restarted enough...but that leaves 3.1, 95, 95OSR2, 98, 98SE, ME, and Vista...I ignore NT before 2000 because it was pretty useless outside of a corporate environment that would have been served much better by *nix.
I have to admit, it sure seems M$ sure name it well? On the $urface it looks good, but in reality, it is yet another hopeful piece of crap M$ is trying to push.
Whatever happened to the day that M$ putting out decent stuff? Oh ya, before Steve Balder, Sure seems to me most of the operating systems and other products M$ is putting out, well let's just say it sure seems Steve is giving the company a good scalping?
While I don't like Windows 8 Pro (it forces power users to do more to do the same, and it blocks the rest from doing the same), I think the real problem is the naming structure. "Windows Mobile" and "Windows Phone" described the product in a way that let people know it would not run their collection of existing software. "Windows 8 RT" only conveys this to those who are already informed on the matter. It seems like Microsoft is trying to trick people into buying these in the hope they will be too lazy to return them.
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