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What Was the Point of Windows RT?
2013-07-31 22:35:29| PC Magazine: the Official John C. Dvorak RSS Feed
Microsoft recently revealed quarterly numbers and it's not good news for the curious Surface RT.
ET deals: $299 for Dell XPS 10 Windows RT tablet
2013-07-22 20:01:52| Extremetech
The tablet industry is a cut-throat one, where Apple rules the roost and everyone else is trying to re-create the magic. Android is having a ton of success, especially if you count Kindle in that camp, but Microsoft has been struggling with its Windows RT platform.The platform as a whole has improved nicely since it…
Microsofts Q2 earnings take $900 million hit due to millions of unsold Surface RT tablets
2013-07-19 13:39:02| Extremetech
Microsoft (MSFT) has announced its fourth-quarter (Q2 calendar) and full-year earnings, and the news isn't fantastic. While its enterprise offerings continue to do well (the Server and Tools division grew 9% this year), the company continues to be hampered by the shrinking PC market -- the Windows division, despite the release of Windows 8, saw its profits drop 18% year-over-year. Microsoft's financial report also shows that it took a $900 million charge for "Surface RT inventory adjustments." Dividing that by the recent $150 price cut suggests that Microsoft could be sitting on as many as six million unsold Surface RTs.
Microsoft writes off nearly $1B to account for Surface RT bomb
2013-07-18 23:21:04| InfoWorld: Top News
Microsoft today took an unexpected $900 million charge to account for what it called "inventory adjustments" for the Surface RT, the poor-selling tablet that debuted last year. Its fourth-quarter fiscal numbers -- published on its website shortly after the U.S. financial markets closed -- pointed out the massive write-down.The company has been aggressively discounting the Surface RT, which runs the scaled-down Windows RT, a tablet-specific version of Windows 8 that relies exclusively on the Metro tile-based user interface and app ecosystem.
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Terry Myerson's first big headache: Windows RT
2013-07-18 14:57:53| InfoWorld: Top News
While the Microsoft marketing band plays on in spite of Windows RT's epic fail, Microsoft's new Operating Systems group, led by long-time Microsoft Exchange honcho Terry Myerson, faces an impossible juggling act.