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Would they admit it was a failure?
Authored by: Anonymous on Friday, March 22 2013 @ 12:32 PM EDT

Seriously. Would they admit that, this early in?

Not likely. They wouldn't want to Osbourne the product line. There is always some hope that they can pull something off, to take some market share.

Personally I don't think that they will be able to manage. As I commented on another Newspick, there's a huge drive towards inexpensive right now due to the ongoing Recession and lackluster Recovery. Microsoft's top end tablets just aren't attractive.

Apple's iPad range is less expensive, and more capable. Android tablets are also less expensive.

You can't take market share if you don't understand the market, and Microsoft doesn't understand that people won't spend money that they don't have.

Wayne
http://madhatter.ca

PS: Has anyone else noticed GeekLog adding carriage returns randomly into plain text comments? It doesn't happen with HTML.

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Sure
Authored by: Anonymous on Friday, March 22 2013 @ 09:27 PM EDT
I could use a Surface RT as somewhere to set my Android tablet, but then again,
I could just use the table.

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Watch TV channels
Authored by: Anonymous on Saturday, March 23 2013 @ 07:29 PM EDT

Something I noticed on QVC-US, QVC-UK, HSN, and some Australian TV shopping channel, was that none of hosts presenting systems with windows were enthused about the product. It did not matter which version of windows was installed, their enthusiasm was at best, lackluster. (It is pretty bad when a host known for tech incompetence is visibly dissapointed in what the system can do, and almost says on air, that it is a bad deal.)

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