Microsoft Corp. has confirmed that its Nokia Lumia 2520 media tablet is no longer in production. Essentially, it means that there are no more devices powered by the company’s Windows RT operating system that are manufactured in high-volume quantities. Last week Microsoft halted production of its own Surface 2 slate …
Read More »Microsoft ceases production of its Windows RT-based Surface tablets
Microsoft Corp. has announced that it had ceased production of its Surface 2 media tablet. The Surface 2 is generally one of the two devices based on Microsoft Windows RT operating system that is available commercially. This week Microsoft sold out the remaining stock of the Surface 2 products and …
Read More »Microsoft Surface will not be updated to Windows 10
Microsoft Corp.’s troubled Surface RT media tablets will not be updated with Windows 10 operating system, even though the new OS is compatible with ARM-based system-on-chips. While devices running Windows RT will get some of functionality of Windows 10, they will never get all of the advantage of the new …
Read More »Microsoft to dump ARM-based Surface media tablets – report
While Microsoft Corp. will continue to offer its Surface Pro line of tablets designed for creative professionals and corporate users, the company is currently reconsidering the future of its Surface media tablets, at least, in their current form. According to a report, Microsoft may dump ARM-based Surface tablets and offer only …
Read More »Microsoft reaffirms commitment to Surface Pro, preps next-gen models
Microsoft Corp. on Tuesday reiterated its commitment to its Surface Pro business tablets and said that its next-generation solutions of the kind, which are in development today, will be compatible with existing peripherals. The claim was made in order to persuade IT managers and CIO to consider Surface Pro as …
Read More »Microsoft Surface sales are down 18% quarter-over-quarter
Sales of Surface tablets in the second quarter of calendar 2014 (Q4 FY2014) were significantly lower compared to the previous quarter, according to Microsoft. At the same time, sales of the company’s professional and media tablets in the fiscal 2014 were considerably higher compared to the Surface revenues a year …
Read More »Microsoft cancels Surface Mini media tablet
Microsoft Corp. has reportedly called off its plans to introduce Surface Mini media tablet. The company decided not to enter the market of smaller slates because it is already very crowded. Nonetheless, the software giant may reconsider its plans regarding smaller tablets if market conditions change. Microsoft was expected to …
Read More »Microsoft unveils Surface 3 Pro, calls it a laptop replacement
Microsoft Corp. on Tuesday introduced its all-new Surface 3 Pro tablet aimed at business users and enterprises. The slate is extremely thin and light, yet, it has a high-definition retina-class 12” display, is based on a high-performance x86 microprocessor and sports Windows 8 Pro operating system. Microsoft claims that the …
Read More »Sales of Microsoft Surface grow, but losses deepen too
Microsoft Corp. said last week that sales of its Surface media and business tablets grew significantly year-over-year in the third quarter of its fiscal 2014. While this is generally a good for the company, since the growing amount of consumers chose Surface over rivals, this also meant that the company …
Read More »First photo of Microsoft Surface Mini published by case maker
A smaller version of Microsoft Corp.’s Surface media tablet has been discussed ever since the launch of the original Surface back in 2012, but the software giant has never confirmed plans to release such a product. Nonetheless, in many cases rumours do materialise and the so-called Surface Mini tablet is …
Read More »Sales of Microsoft Surface tablets doubled in Q4 2013
Microsoft Corp.’s Surface series of media and business tablets is staring to gain traction on the market. According to the company’s latest financial results, sales of Surface doubled in the second quarter of the fiscal 2014 (calendar Q4 2013). Unfortunately, the slates still bring only losses to the software giant. …
Read More »Microsoft slashes US Surface tablet pricing
Update: Eagle eyed reader Martyn Hall has furnished us with a link to better UK pricing. Don't go direct if you want one of these, as Curry's looks to have slashed the pricing on its Surface stock too. Get it here for under £280. Microsoft has shown favouritism to our …
Read More »Microsoft Surface RT sales off to a ‘modest’ start
The Surface RT tablet from Microsoft launched just over two weeks ago and since getting word that four million Windows 8 upgrades had been sold, Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer has given some insight into sales of their in-house tablet. In an interview with Le Parisien Ballmer said that sales for …
Read More »Microsoft riding on Surface, literally
With just over a week before the next generation of Windows is officially launched the marketing campaign is starting to get under way. No one can doubt the importance of the next few months for Microsoft with launches of Windows 8, RT and Phone 8 in place, so I guess you …
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