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Microsoft Is Sitting On Six Million Unsold Surface Tablets

Posted by samzenpus on from the inventory-reduction-sale dept.

DavidGilbert99 writes "Microsoft took everyone by surprise last year with the Surface tablet. It was something completely new from the company everyone knew as a software company. However nine months later and the sheen has worn off the Surface tablet and Microsoft's financial results on Thursday revealed it has taken a $900 million write down on the Surface RT tablets, leading David Gilbert in IBTimes to estimate it is sitting on a stockpile of six million unsold tablets."

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  1. Bury by k31bang · · Score: 5, Funny

    I think i know an area in New Mexico where they can bury them. With good electronic company.

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    1. Re:Bury by jtownatpunk.net · · Score: 4, Funny

      I had exactly the same thought but I was gonna say something like, "Those E.T. carts are gonna have some company soon."

    2. Re:Bury by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

      If Ballmer's been sitting on them and squirting his Zune, they'll need to go to a hazardous waste facility for sure.

    3. Re:Bury by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Funny

      All the better that Microsoft has such fantastic experience with phoning home (or at least to the NSA).

    4. Re:Bury by Joce640k · · Score: 5, Funny

      Luckily for us they designed their latest desktop operating system around that huge pile of landfill.

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    5. Re:Bury by RabidReindeer · · Score: 5, Funny

      I had exactly the same thought but I was gonna say something like, "Those E.T. carts are gonna have some company soon."

      All the better that Microsoft has such fantastic experience with phoning home (or at least to the NSA).

      NSA: "We've found a HUGE terrorist cell in Mexico!"

    6. Re:Bury by Entropius · · Score: 5, Funny

      No, I think you mean:

      c) give them to developers developers developers developers developers developers developers developers developers developers developers.

    7. Re:Bury by radiumsoup · · Score: 5, Funny

      pfft, you think I read the article?

      Ha!

  2. How can that be? by I'm+New+Around+Here · · Score: 5, Funny

    With those cool commercials showing people spinning these around, and snapping keyboards onto them with such gusto. Certainly the choreography should have guaranteed these things get snapped up in masses.

    It can't be that people are finally paying attention, and ignoring fluff. So what gives?

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  3. Sitting On Six Million Unsold Surface tablets by Chrisq · · Score: 5, Funny

    Microsoft Is Sitting On Six Million Unsold Surface Tablets

    I guess Balmer threw all the chairs out.

  4. Now THAT's an investment! by ohnocitizen · · Score: 3, Funny

    Smart move. They are sure to go up in value over time. Like Furbies.

  5. Re:Release the secure boot key... by DrJimbo · · Score: 4, Funny

    So, you can't run Linux on it.

    No wonder it's not selling.

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  6. Re:BING = Ballmer Is Not Good. by peragrin · · Score: 4, Funny

    I love Ballmer, if anyone is going to permantly bury Microsoft it will be Ballmer. I say let Ballmer stay until he is forced out by the shareholders revolting and then Icann can show him how to properly strip mine a company of anything useful.

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