Microsoft's Surface Pro Tablet to Debut February 9
The wait for Microsoft’s Surface Pro will soon be over. The company said Tuesday that the Windows 8 Pro version of its tablet will go on sale in the U.S. and Canada on Feb. 9, at a starting price of...
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Microsoft Earnings Come In on Target
Microsoft has a lot riding on the success of its new Windows 8 operating system and Surface tablet, so the company’s financials for the second-quarter — the first period to reflect the October launch...
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Surface Pro: Hefty Tablet Is a Laptop Lightweight
Microsoft is introducing its second-ever personal computer. As with the first, it’s a multi-touch 10.6-inch tablet that has some of the attributes of a laptop, such as a USB port and snap-on...
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Microsoft Hints at Battery Add-On for Surface Pro
Microsoft doesn’t see any problems with the nearly four hours of battery life offered by its new Surface Pro tablet. But for those that do, the company may have a solution in the works. During an Ask...
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Blizzard Snows on Microsoft's Surface Pro Parade
Microsoft is finding Nemo to be quite the buzzkill. The software giant had planned a big New York launch party Friday night for the Surface Pro, which goes on sale Saturday. Panos Panay, who leads the...
View ArticleMicrosoft Gives Surface RT to Europe for Valentine's Day
Three months after debuting its new Surface RT in the United States, Microsoft is is increasing the device’s overseas availability. The company said today that on February 14 it will launch the RT in...
View ArticleMicrosoft's Surface Headed to Japan
Surface RT, the consumer version of Microsoft’s new tablet, is headed to another important market. After debuting the RT in the U.S., Canada and a few other countries last fall, Microsoft is preparing...
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Surface Makes Microsoft a Top 5 Tablet Vendor … With 1.8 Percent Market Share
“I don’t think anybody has done a product that is the product that I see customers wanting. You can go through the products from all those guys … and none of them has a product that you can really use....
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Microsoft Looks to Boost Surface With Big Discounts for Schools
It turns out that Microsoft’s Windows in the Classroom Surface Experience Project, a giveaway of 10,000 Surface RT devices, targeted at educators, was just the beginning of the company’s efforts to...
View ArticleMicrosoft Mulling Surface RT Price Cut
In an effort to spur demand for the Surface RT, which hasn’t exactly met with much, Microsoft plans to slash the tablet’s price. The Verge reports the company will chop $150 from the prices in the...
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Microsoft Slashes Surface RT Prices Indefinitely
Hoping to purge some of its excess Surface RT inventory, Microsoft has slashed the tablet’s price by as much as 30 percent. On Sunday, the price of the 32 gigabyte Surface RT fell to $349 from $499,...
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Microsoft Misses, Takes a $900 Million Charge on Surface RT Stock
Wall Street expected Microsoft to post a slight gain in earnings for its fiscal fourth quarter, but that’s hardly what it delivered. Posting financials Thursday afternoon, Microsoft reported fiscal...
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Diving Below the Surface: Here's All the Microsoft Q4 Charts and More to Peruse
As was reported earlier today by Microsoft, it was a tough Q4 for the tech giant. Along with a $900 million writedown for its Surface RT tablet, Microsoft had bad numbers all over the place. New CFO...
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Microsoft Celebrates $900 Million Surface RT Write-Down With Ironic...
“I don’t think anybody has done a product that is the product that I see customers wanting. Not Apple. Not Google. Not Amazon. Nobody has a product that lets you work and play that can be your tablet...
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AllThingsD's Week in Review: New iPhones, Microsoft's Q4 and the...
In case you missed anything, here’s a quick roundup of the news that powered AllThingsD this week: Comparing Wearables: Fitbit Flex vs. Jawbone Up and More Next-Gen iPhone Production Kicks Into Gear;...
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Microsoft Surface Revenue So Far: $853 Million
$853 million. That’s all Microsoft made from its new Surface tablet between its launch in October 2012 and the close of the company’s fiscal year on June 30, according to the company’s annual Form...
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ATD Week in Review: Microsoft Partner Woes and Samsung's Steroid Specs
In case you missed anything, here’s a quick roundup of some of the news that powered AllThingsD this week: Starbucks said it would bring wireless cellphone charging to 10 of its coffee shops in Silicon...
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On Heels of Massive RT Write-Down, Microsoft Cuts Surface Pro Prices Through...
Beginning today and stretching through the end of August, Microsoft plans to discount the price of its Surface Pro tablets by $100. The discounted price, first spotted by Tom Warren at The Verge,...
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Surface RT an "Unmitigated Disaster," Says Class Action Suit
What a nightmare the Surface RT is proving to be for Microsoft. Piddling demand for the tablet forced the company to take an ugly $900 million charge for inventory adjustments in its fiscal fourth...
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Microsoft Debuts "Bing for Schools" With Surface RT Giveaway
Microsoft officially rolled out its new “Bing For Schools” initiative, sweetening the pilot program with some Surface RT freebies that the company hopes will give it some early momentum. Microsoft said...
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For Ballmer, Resistance Was Futile
When Microsoft co-founder and CEO Bill Gates handed the reins of the tech giant to his longtime comrade and right-hand man Steve Ballmer in January 2000, the path was fairly clear. After some bumps,...
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Beyond Monkey Boy: It's a Steve Ballmer Quote-Tacular!
After 13 years as CEO, Steve Ballmer is giving up the top job at Microsoft, announcing plans to retire within the next year. While Ballmer has had a rocky tenure as CEO, a role he took over from...
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Microsoft Wraps Up Windows 8.1 for the Holidays
Microsoft confirmed on Tuesday that it has finished its work on Windows 8.1, the first significant update to the operating system since it was released last year. The revised software, which will be...
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Temporary Surface Pro Price Cut Now Permanent Surface Pro Price Cut
Microsoft’s Surface Pro has a new low price: $799. On Thursday, the company made permanent the $100-off promotion it had been offering on the tablet for the better part of August. Though scheduled to...
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Microsoft to Debut Second Generation of Surface Products at September 23 New...
Microsoft plans to introduce a new wave of its homegrown Surface hardware at a Sept. 23 event in New York. Despite significant speculation about a smaller-size Surface tablet, the company is not...
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