Tag: Windows RT
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 Surface RT Can Now Run a Few Basic x86 Applications Thanks to a Hack
Each operating system/platform has a vast developer community, and the number only increases with each coming day. Be it Android, iOS or Windows Phone/Windows 8, they’ve all got a large number of developers trying to bring in hacks/tweaks to unsupported devices. For Android, there’s the CyanogenMod team and similarly for Windows too there’s a big [...]
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 [...]
Reader Question: Will the Surface Tablets Pick Up Pace in the market?
This one’s off the Android topic too, but of particular interest to us all. Microsoft’s Surface tablets were formally announced in June last year and brought to the market in late October, although only the Surface RT was launched. The tablet has found critics right from the start, be it for its poor timing or [...]
Over 180 Million Tablets Will be Shipped in 2013 Claims Report
The tablet marketshare has substantially increased over the past few years and with good reason. The market which was more or less dominated by the Apple iPad, saw the emergence of the budget tablets like Kindle Fire and the Nexus 7 which marked a new revival (or arrival) of Android tablets on a bigger scale. [...]
Microsoft Going Mellow on the Surface RT Jailbreak Episode
Microsoft’s Windows RT based tablet, the Surface RT is a moderate success despite what the company would have you believe. The reasons for that are pretty much out in the open. And there is hardly anything going for the company in the current situation as we told you a couple of days ago. But if [...]
PC Sales Drop in Q4 2012, Worst Figures in Over Five Years for Microsoft
Microsoft clearly didn’t have a good 2012 and that was apparent for several reasons. Firstly the evolution of its mobile OS in the form of Windows Phone 8 received lukewarm response when it was launched, and also because its aspirations for the tablet market took a heavy beating post the launch of the Surface RT. [...]
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 [...]
Microsoft Windows RT Ported Onto a HTC HD2
It’s baffling to see how some developers manage to get newest versions of an OS running on a relatively older device. This is crucial for devices which are usually forgotten by its creators. Due to (alleged) hardware limitations, manufacturers quickly write off a device from their update list. The HTC HD2 is one of them. [...]
HTC Could Launch 7 and 12-inch Windows RT Tablets in 2013
HTC is certainly not the top manufacturer in the Android world today and clearly hasn’t been having a good time in the market. But there have been hints at a revival by the company with the industry standard setting HTC Butterfly and its subsidiaries, which has opened the doors for 1080p display panels to be [...]
Nokia Could Launch 10-inch Windows RT Tablet at MWC 2013
Nokia has never been into tablets, not since the past few years at least. Back then the situation was very different, as Nokia was deeply involved in the development of Symbian and Maemo simultaneously. Since there was very little scope for thinking outside Symbian, Nokia never paid heed to tablets as the form factor was [...]
SNES Emulator Makes Its Way To Microsoft Surface Running Windows RT
Do you have a Microsoft Surface and wish there were more game titles made for it? We can understand this since the operating system used, which is Windows RT, is relatively new and games designed for this specific OS aren’t that plenty. It’s different for the Windows, iOS or even Android platform where users don’t [...]
Surface RT Heading To Electronics Retailers Beginning From Today
The Microsoft Surface RT was initially launched in select locations and only through Microsoft’s Online Store or its brick-and-mortar stores. This partial rollout of the tablet was heavily criticized as most people had no access to live units of the device to use it before making the purchase. Although Microsoft Stores had the tablet in [...]
