Tag: Surface
Microsoft aiming for 25 million Surface sales in 2014
Microsoft flopped with the Surface RT and the Surface Pro may have been an admirable if somewhat unsuccessful attempt at a revamp, but that has not stopped the optimism at Redmond. The company believes they are still in the running to become one of the biggest tablet distributors by 2014, hopefully selling 25 million [...]
Microsoft Might Have Only Sold About 230,000 Surface RT Tablets
The Microsoft Surface tablets were proudly announced by the Redmond giant back in June 2012. It was interesting to see the company’s approach towards the tablet industry as they had a regular tablet in the form of the Surface RT, which was aimed at the average tablet user. And a hardcore tablet with similar design [...]
Samsung’s Windows RT Running Ativ Tab Will Not Make its Way to the U.S
Samsung’s ambitions in the tablet market have been very high with devices like the Galaxy Tab which had quite a few variants and the Galaxy Note 800. More recently, the company announced the Nexus 10 tablet in accordance with Google which is one of the best Android tablets money can buy right now. However, we [...]
Analysts Blame Poor Distribution for Lackluster Sales of the Surface RT
The Surface RT arrived in the market with plenty of hope. Microsoft desperately wanted the idea to click so as to get some of that tablet marketshare. However, the concept was not well received by many and it led to the inevitable poor run of the tablet initially. Despite not being able to provide the [...]
Microsoft Surface RT Getting a Firmware Update to Improve Battery Life and Overall Performance
Microsoft’s Surface RT tablet certainly isn’t the best out there in terms of performance or day to day use. The tablet has so much going against it that some called even called it a blunder (the jury is still out on that). But here we have Microsoft reassuring its users that what they own is [...]
32GB Microsoft Surface RT Only has 16GB of User Accessible Storage
So you just got yourself a 32GB Microsoft Surface RT tablet, and are feeling adventurous about the things you can do with all that 32GB of space inside. But wait, you suddenly realize there’s only a little more than 16GB left of the internal storage. Man, where did all the storage go? Well, there’s a [...]
Microsoft Surface Pro Tablet reportedly slated for January 2013 release
Software giant Microsoft has just acquired another windfall following the successful debut of its new system, Windows 8, and first hardware entry, Surface RT, late last month. Surface RT tablet has just attained a huge backer in the person of the legendary philanthropist, Oprah Winfrey. Outlined among other things in the official list of “Oprah’s [...]
Oprah” Microsoft Surface is “One of Her Favorites of 2012’
Surface sale could get even higher in the succeeding days after television celebrity Oprah Winfrey claimed that Microsoft’s first ever tablet is one of her Favorite Things of the year. Microsoft prowess to draw more attention for their products by hooking up with famous celebrities takes a notch higher after Oprah – the Queen of [...]
Surface Orders Delayed In The United Kingdom, $80 Coupon Handed Out As An “Apology”
The launch of Microsoft’s new Surface tablet has gone very well in New York, but orders that are headed to Britain haven’t been going very well as they originally expected. Microsoft has been unable to ship the Surface units to customers in the United Kingdom on time (or their estimated time). Several readers over at The Verge [...]
Microsoft Surface Survives a 30-Inch Drop Test
The Surface is Microsoft’s highly anticipated tablet, running on the Windows 8 operating system. While plenty has been spoken about the software inside and the hype surrounding it, very little was said about the device itself. Yes we knew about its hardware prowess, but not about one major factor i.e durability. And now that question [...]
Microsoft Targets to Make 3 Million+ of Surface Tablets
Last June, Microsoft had introduced their very own line of tablet computers making a huge shift for a software giant company aiming to compete with Apple and other Android tablet manufacturers. After the announcement, Microsoft has left in silence to focus on their upcoming products. The International Data Corporation (IDC), a market research and analysis [...]
Microsoft Already Working On Surface 2.0?!
Remember those Surface tablets that Microsoft is getting ready to start selling at Microsoft Stores and some other temporary “holiday” stores in twelve different cities in the United States including New York. These Surface tablets are only the first of a planned family of Windows devices. In other words, Surface 2.0 is already under development [...]
