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Microsoft Is Giving Students a Free Xbox One With Surface Pro 4 Purchases (theverge.com)
Microsoft on Wednesday announced a sweet deal for any student on the fence on purchasing the Surface Pro 4. The company has said that it will be taking $300 off when students purchase a Surface Pro 4 and Xbox One. In a statement to The Verge, Terry Myerson, head of Windows and devices at Microsoft said, "So basically a free Xbox One with the purchase of a Surface Pro 4." The deal is only running at Microsoft's retail stores in the United States. The deal goes live today and will last until August 14.
I guess that gets the price of a surface pro 4 down from "insanely overpriced" to "absurdly overpriced".
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I suspect that's the only way the're going to get rid of their out-dated Xboxes now.
That is one way to get their units sold closer to PS4.
This is counter-intuitive AF. Basically you're giving away a leisure tool with the purchase of a (mostly) productivity-bound tool. I like the deal, and the people will too, but education packages are supposed to give people an edge on, take a guess: education. If I was such a parent, I'd consider that deal, give the kid the Surface Pro, and keep the Xbox for me. Or maybe keep them both and tell him to use the facilities tuition pays for, so that he stays longer in the campus where he is not distracted by procrastination (as much...).
Well the increasingly bizarre behavior out of Microsoft just keeps on coming. I am certain the cause is perverse incentives for a few high-ranking executives. They are told they need adoption numbers up, up, up and do what it takes to make it happen. Even if you need to make the Windows Update tool into malware. I used to look on the Update notifications as a necessary system freshener - now, I fearfully inspect the updates to make sure they won't screw up my working system. I have a laptop certified to work with Windows 8 and I'll be damned if I'm going to roll the dice with upgrade and see if everything works afterwards.
I get the idea that this is due to Microsoft's culture. They are just so used to having a huge, monopolist's market share. Anything else looks horrid to them. We geeks always wanted to see how Microsoft would work when they actually had to compete instead of just stepping on everyone's air supply. Turns out, they suck at it. A few years ago I made the mistake of buying a Windows Phone (6.5) and boy that's a mistake I'll never make again.
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IE if you a student, just sale the XBox One for for $250 which makes the purchase price of the Surface even that much cheaper.
Or, sell the Surface for $750 and then the XBox One only cost you $150.
I just tried to buy a bundle and when I click 'Add to cart', the page just reloads. So I guess nobody is buying this bundle.
A few years ago I made the mistake of buying a Windows Phone (6.5) and boy that's a mistake I'll never make again.
Windows Phone began with version 7. You must have its predecessor, Windows Mobile.
Two xbox one models then?
Or it was Windows Phone 7.5
Then why not skip the SP4/XBox and go for an iPad Pro, and a MacBook Air, with an NAS system for massive data storage.
Funny. People complained that MS never changed, and it was just a boring old work company. They start doing weird things like... giving away an xbox with a surface pro purchase, and now they're just messed up or poorly-led or whatever. Meanwhile, no one cares that Apple basically does *nothing* new for 5 years at a time.
Or, those fucking wankers at Microsoft could just take $300 off the Shitface and admit that the woozy piece of crap is way overpriced.
At $1,499 to $3,199 it's significantly more than a whiz-bang laptop or a nicely outfitted Android tablet with some add-on goodies.
And the best part is that you don't have to prance around the office like a hipster with brain damage to use it, either.
Just cruising through this digital world at 33 1/3 rpm...
Great job of parroting the MS rep, The Verge. The ACTUAL story is "$300 off". Which... who gives a shit.
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Funny. People complained that MS never changed, and it was just a boring old work company. They start doing weird things like... giving away an xbox with a surface pro purchase, and now they're just messed up or poorly-led or whatever. Meanwhile, no one cares that Apple basically does *nothing* new for 5 years at a time.
Are you being sarcastic??? If not, then you may need to understand that they are different situations. Never_changed != Does_nothing_new. Never change in the sense is to keep doing the way it is. It could be culture, behavior, etc. Does nothing new means there is no innovation of ideas or the way things work. Even though both situations can happen at the same time, they are still not the same. So why can't people make a complaint on just one and not the other?
I guess "Well the increasingly bizarre behavior out of Microsoft just keeps on coming." from the parent means "never changed" in your sense which would be different from "does *nothing* new."
So, the sales of Surface Pro 4s AND XBox 1's are BOTH so shitty that you have to COMBINE their "unit sales"?!?
Or, the ONLY way you can get anyone to buy that overpriced POS Surface Pro 4 is to GIVE YOU a $300 toy to distract you???
LOLOL!!!
Both suck.
It's fascinating to watch Microsoft become more and more desperate as people start to avoid them wholesale. It looks like Microsoft has finally pissed people off so much that they basically can't do *anything* anymore, because people won't buy what they sell.
People will continue to buy Windows because they need computers, and those computers will most likely need Windows. Office has become synonymous with word processing and spreadsheets, so people buy that too because they don't really feel they have a choice.
Every other things they make has collapsed. They've tried mobile several times now. Nobody will bite. Same with their mp3 players, their tablets, their gaming consoles... They haven't been able to gain traction on *anything* outside their core monopoly business. Or if they do, it's only temporary and it quickly dies off again.
Their only real hope had been to basically hold out until the previous generation basically retired, and people forgot all their shenanigans of the past. But things like the Windows 10 shitshow have done an excellent job of demonstrating to an entirely new generation of people that they really haven't changed at all. They're still the same "We'll fuck you over at the earliest opportunity" bastards they've been since Bill Gates founded the company.
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