Microsoft, Dell Aim To Sell Surfaces To Businesses

jfruh writes: Microsoft became an OS and PC behemoth in part by relentless focus on business sales, and is partnering with old friend Dell to try to recreate that success, trying to woo companies into buying Surface Pros loaded with Windows 10. It may seem topsy-turvey that Dell would be selling someone else's hardware, but Dell is offering ancillary services, including warranties, on the Microsoft hardware.

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Dell has sold someone else's hardware forever

[crgrace]

I remember seeing a lot of private label printers and monitors in the Dell catalog over the years. They also have a history of selling Microsoft products. I recall significant catalog space for the Zune, for instance.

We have those Surfaces, loads of trouble.[serious]

[denis-The-menace]

At work we keep getting Surface-only issues:
-Surface-Specific updates that won't stick
-BT-gadget not connecting on Surface
-Apps that works well except on Surface.

This both Surface 2 and Surface 3. WTF MS! This is supposed to be your flagship device!

I was sitting on the fence on getting one myself because they look well built until the Snoop-dates. That was the last straw for me.
At home, I'm moving on to Mint or something else.

Translation

[MightyMartian]

Translation: Microsoft hopes that Dell can move the piles of unsold Surface inventory that is collecting dust.

It has a few issues

[thegarbz]

I have a Surface Pro 3 for about a year now. It's a fantastic little device which I like a lot. But that said it does have a couple of issues unbecoming of a flagship product. A few bugs that I've noticed:

- The pen every so often goes to max sensitivity registering touches before even touching down on the screen. Remove and reinsert the battery fixes it.
- Windows gets confused with the keyboard state leading to situations where you can't log in because the keyboard is folded back but it's not displaying the on-screen keyboard. Likewise this locks the screen rotation at sometimes inopp

But the biggest and most stupid bug of them all:
- Microsoft's graphics driver for the GPU exhibits extreme banding and the screen flickers while on battery. This is fixed by forcefully installing the driver from Intel's website, but every few months Windows Update reinstalls the Microsoft driver.

In my opinion if Microsoft want to start being taken seriously as an integrated hardware/software vendor they need to start owning and fixing the bugs on their flagship product.