Microsoft May Finally Put Windows RT Out To Pasture

onyxruby writes "Microsoft may finally be ready to put Windows RT out to pasture. After ignoring pundits, the public, and a staggering $900 writedown, the subsequent lack of sales for the second edition of the RT have finally gotten the message through. Speaking at a UBS seminar, Microsoft VP Julie Larson-Green said, 'It just didn't do everything that you expected Windows to do. So there's been a lot of talk about it should have been a rebranding. We should not have called it Windows (.DOCX). How should we have made it more differentiated? I think over time you'll see us continue to differentiate it more. We have the Windows Phone OS. We have Windows RT and we have full Windows. We're not going to have three.'"

Comments

Re:900 bucks

[blue trane]

What are you talking about? It still says "$900 writedown".

Re:Try not to fuck up the product in the first pla

[bloodhawk]

BS, dual boot is a minor feature that very few would use and would be a blip on the radar as far as sales go. The killer was the lack of apps, the locked down nature of the installed OS combined with general confusion.

Re:900 bucks

[rubycodez]

tech.slashdot.org still has the $900, hardware.slashdot.org story has the $900M

Re:What microsoft SHOULD have done...

[GigaplexNZ]

An x86 mobile phone already is a thing.

Re:If they hadn't locked it down...

[mrchaotica]

It seems as well that Microsoft wanted the locked-down environment to prevent Windows RT from having viruses

Absolute BS. Microsoft wanted the locked-down environment in order to force users to their app store, so that they'd get a 30% cut like Apple and Google do.