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Microsoft To Start Dumping Surface RT To Schools For $199
onyxruby writes "In a move that will remind many of Apple in the '80s, Microsoft is going to start dumping Surface RT computers to educational institutions. In an effort to try to gain mindshare for their struggling Surface RT platform, Microsoft is giving away 10,000 Surface RTs to teachers through the International Society for Technology in Education. They're also preparing to offer $199 Surface RTs to K12 and higher education institutions. The strategy of flooding the educational market was quite successful for Apple. Unfortunately for Microsoft, today's computers require management and the Surface RT presents significant management challenges in terms of the inability to join the computer to a domain or available management tools."
Surface RT is not a dud, it is a great product and millions have been sold.
-Steve
Better $199.00 from a school than $0.00 from the dumpster.
* Carthago Delenda Est *
...if they called them "Sad Meals" no one would buy them.
Good I was looking to replace my HP Touchpad.
the preceding comment is my own and in no way reflects the opinion of the Joint Chiefs of Staff
I can feed it to my dog. ...and when he 'reboots', my other dog will try to eat it.
The government which is strong enough to protect you from everything is strong enough to take everything from you.
I would have been glad to have one... if not for the bootloader lockdown bullshit.
Foot, meet bullet.
For large sets, this will be our guide even unto death, for the LORD will work for each type of data it is applied to...
Your argument is like a McDonald's sign: Billions and Billions sold.
Doesn't say anything about quality.
Doesn't say anything about value.
An analogy! Let me try: your argument is like a car: it doesn't understand what words mean.
Dud
a : one that is ineffectual; also : failure <a box-office dud>
Love it or hate it, the Apple II was a massive success, becoming one of the best-selling computers of its day thanks in large part to VisiCalc, its affordable price, and the wide availability of apps for it, which allowed it to become an important component of the PC revolution of the '80s. Suggesting that the Apple II was overpriced and outdated (as you did in an earlier comment) is preposterous and factually inaccurate, and suggesting it's a dud on the grounds of quality and value (as you did in your last comment) is irrelevant since those are only indirectly related to whether something is a dud (not to mention that those arguments make no sense in historical contexts). The only thing you got correct was that the volume discount being offered by Apple to educational institutions was, while aggressive, still nowhere comparable to the sort of dumping that we're seeing Microsoft do here.
I think the schools should be paid more than $199 per RT.