Microsoft's Surface Revenue Drops By $285M (26%) (computerworld.com)

An anonymous reader quotes Computerworld: Revenue generated by Microsoft's Surface hardware during the March quarter was down 26% from the same period the year before, the company said yesterday as it briefed Wall Street. For the quarter, Surface produced $831 million, some $285 million less than the March quarter of 2016, for the largest year-over-year dollar decline ever... The revenue decline "indicates that the aging product needs a refresh badly," Jack Gold, principal analyst at J. Gold Associates, wrote in a note to clients today. "Price cutting and competing vendors' products will continue to create declines until new product is released, rumored for later this year." Microsoft threw cold water on any significant changes to the Surface line before June, forecasting that the current quarter will also post a revenue decline.

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Re: Not a big deal

[Anonymous Coward]

Pointing out that something presented as an anecdote is, in fact, an anecdote is a poor attempt at trolling.

Mac Sales outstrip Surface 8:1

[TheFakeTimCook]

Q1 2017 Mac Sales: $7.244 BEELION.

Surface Sales: $831 MEELION.

Yep, peeps be lovin' them some Surface kit, LOL!

Re:Not a big deal

[Billly Gates]

The surface is far from trash. It's not designed to be a thick powerhouse workstation.

If you need performance get a Surfacebook or an ultrabook like Dells XPS NVME line.

The surface pro has great PC class performance in an ultra portable manner. The i7s and i5s are underclocked and it has aggressive power management. I LOVE mine as I used it for Wireshark at my last job for working on Ethernet ports.

Its portability was great. It has great battery life and best I have ever seen in a portable and I use it as an ebook reader and to play training videos next to my real i7 workstation in my home office.

The surface pro has a real IPS photography grade screen and an excellent keyboard cover and weighs next to nothing to carry around or go on trips. It is the PC Ipad. Use the right tool for the job. Oh and it runs Ubuntu quite well too I may add.