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Microsoft Surface Struggles to Ship A Million Units

Posted by Unknown on Wednesday December 5, 2012 @05:41AM from the tim-cook-hexed-ballmer dept.

zacharye writes "While some see potential in Microsoft's Surface tablet, most industry watchers appear to have written off the device at this point. Orders were reportedly cut in half following a slow launch, and Microsoft's debut slate has been hammered time and time again by reviewers and analysts. The latest to pile on is Boston-based brokerage firm Detwiler Fenton, which estimates that when all is said and done, Microsoft will have sold fewer than 1 million Surface tablets in the slate's debut quarter." Still better than 25,000.

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not on anybody's christmas list by Anonymous Coward · 2012-12-05 06:01 · Score: 5, Funny

You can get a Nobel Peace prize for "not being George W Bush", but apparently people aren't standing in line to buy "not an iPad".
Re:failure round 2 incoming by Trashcan+Romeo · 2012-12-05 06:48 · Score: 5, Funny

Microsoft-level quality is expensive. [Yes, that was sarcasm.]
Re:failure round 2 incoming by Runaway1956 · 2012-12-05 07:14 · Score: 5, Funny

I would have thought Microsoft had recovered all the expense of developing the BSOD by now.

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Re:failure round 2 incoming by xeno314 · 2012-12-05 07:37 · Score: 5, Funny

Apparently you failed to account for the new touchscreen BSOD R&D costs. You can't actually touch it, but they'll fix that with SP1.