Tag: Surface
Windows 8 sales – yet to surface
Microsoft’s distribution channels are leaking their frustration about lacklustre Windows 8 and Surface sales. Microsoft insiders appear to be blaming their OEM customer’s poor imagination on the dearth of interest. Is this lack of elegance the first real sign of cracks in their strategy? Enterprise sales of Windows 8 is going to take at least… Read More ›
Windows 8 – Does it matter anymore?
Steve Ballmer, CEO Microsoft, announced availability of Windows 8 yesterday “shattering perceptions of what a PC is” and “kicking off a new era” for the company. Having completely missed the smartphone and tablet movements (along with Intel), it certainly needed a good kick as it attempts to make its comeback with an operating system that… Read More ›
Windows 8: The Good, The Bad and the Ugly
Microsoft will release Windows 8 to manufacturing in August and it will be generally available for sale in October. So IT managers will shortly be faced with the question of whether they should switch to it or not. In my view they should wait – as long as they can. Consumers buying new PCs on… Read More ›
Woops, surface just a “reference design” after all
Clearly perplexed by its OEM’s reaction to Surface, Microsoft has been doing some serious backpedalling of late. Turns out Surface really was just about teasing them into doing a better job of creating “stunning devices” after all.
Underground Project Surfaces from Metro
Clearly the powers that be at Microsoft got tired of Apple’s runaway revenues, profits and stock price. They got tired of their domination of the tablet and mobile segment. They got worried about Apple’s creeping enterprise market share and got even more worried about how cool enterprises viewed them at Microsoft’s expense. Something had to… Read More ›
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