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Microsoft: Surface Tablet May Alienate OEM Partners

Posted by Soulskill on from the damn-the-torpedoes dept.

HangingChad sends this excerpt from PCMag: "Microsoft this week admitted that its upcoming Surface tablet might hurt its relationships with PC maker partners. As first noted by the New York Times, Redmond said in a Thursday filing with the Securities and Exchange Commission that 'our Surface devices will compete with products made by our OEM partners, which may affect their commitment to our platform.'" The filing also made note of the difficulties in building up another app marketplace: "In order to compete, we must successfully enlist developers to write applications for our marketplace and ensure that these applications have high quality, customer appeal and value. Efforts to compete with these application marketplaces may increase our cost of revenue and lower our operating margins."

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  1. Re:They're Concluding Microsoft Wants to Be Apple by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    Bro, no one is looking at Linux for consumer apps. Linux is shit.

  2. nigerfaget grammer nazis will be trolled by this by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    Hey look its another nigerfaget trying to promote his shitty Loonix bullshit. They're tablet is going to rock the pants off those faget ass OEMs who think its there right to to not compete with Microsoft. They should of been prepared for this already.