*** The Official Microsoft Surface Thread ***

kevpuk said:
Surely Micro$oft could do their market penetration some good with a price like this available to the masses? Would certainly boost sales as the price falls into Nexus 7 territory.....
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I imagine that Microsoft has had its fill of embarrassing u-turns lately but I suspect the reason they haven't done this already is it would set some precedents they want to avoid such.

A few examples spring to mind, they'd have a much harder time justifying a normal price on any following products, who would buy the devices at launch if they're going to slash prices by 50% plus after a few months and it's also a kick in the teeth to the early adopters.
 
They were giving Surface RTs away at TechEd for $99 with touch cover and Pros for $399. They are doing similar for TechEd Europe next week and I suspect they will also do it at Build today.

It looks to me like they are dumping inventory. Let's see though. If they are going to announce something it will be this evening.
 
I think it's two food
A) dumping inventory
b) getting some out there, just look at how many people like them who try them, especially the pro. Need people to introduce them to their friends and family.
The RT was always under specced, but if all the signs come true qaulcom 800 with super high res screen, that's a very good device if you don't want traditional desktop apps. As the App Store grows the reason for purely home devices to need the desktop reduces.

I still want surface 2 or similar with an extra inch or two on the display, and not an acer, as had two bad experiences with acer and tablets.
 
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Its because en-gb isn't a supported language, go to the winndows forum and there seems to be a work around. But i would strongly recommend reading MS FAQ page before doing anything.
 
R.O.S.S.I said:
How does one acquire one of the RT's if one works for an education provider? What channels do you have to go through?
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Go talk too the purchase department and if they don't know anything take this to them.

http://www.slideshare.net/Microsofteduk/surface-rt-23495727

It's RT only.

When are Ms going to announce, I needs info.
My ipad as well as the issues I've had with the touch screen for years. The wifi is stating to die, keeps disconnecting from wifi and not being able to reconnect, without a restart, no other device has issues and its happened on a few different networks.
Hurray up and announce/release surface 2
 
Glaucus said:
Go talk too the purchase department and if they don't know anything take this to them.

http://www.slideshare.net/Microsofteduk/surface-rt-23495727

It's RT only.

When are Ms going to announce, I needs info.
My ipad as well as the issues I've had with the touch screen for years. The wifi is stating to die, keeps disconnecting from wifi and not being able to reconnect, without a restart, no other device has issues and its happened on a few different networks.
Hurray up and announce/release surface 2
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I have read somewhere that the wifi issue can actually be a mean the unit is faulty and needs replaced by Microsoft. (it suggests taking it into a MS store)

I'm waiting for the Surface 2 to be released, however the Lenovo yoga 11s actually seems like a very good alternative to the Surface Pro. Though it really does need a haswell chip.
 
Gazb said:
I have read somewhere that the wifi issue can actually be a mean the unit is faulty and needs replaced by Microsoft. (it suggests taking it into a MS store)

I'm waiting for the Surface 2 to be released, however the Lenovo yoga 11s actually seems like a very good alternative to the Surface Pro. Though it really does need a haswell chip.
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Ipad not surface.
 
Hopefully the 15W TDP chips can be down clocked and under volted to a 6W SDP. Even if they have to turn a core off, a single 1Ghz Haswell core should still be powerful enough for most tablet usage. The Y series are a good indication of what the future holds, but as pointed out in a recent AnandTech podcast there to slow to be used in high end tablets (Surface Pro), and too big and expensive to be a realistic alternative to Atom/ARM.

Edit: Glaucus, AFAIK the rumors are for Surface Mini, Surface RT successor and probably a Surface Pro successor for release in October (although I'm not sure how accurate these are).
 
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More bad news for poor old Microsoft.

Abject Surface RT Failure Cuts Another Deep Gash in Microsoft’s Accounts, Despite $1bn Extra Ad Spend

Microsoft has released new financial data that shows how poorly its Surface tablets have been performing, revealing that it earned just $853m (£560m) in sales from the tablet range last year. And it’s already written off $900m in inventory discounts. Ouch.

The $853m earning total includes cash brought in by both Surface RT and Surface Pro sales, although the earlier $900m write-down only includes Surface RT, so there’s more financial suffering in the pipeline. To make matters even worse, Microsoft’s numbers reveal that it also spent an extra $1bn last year on a combined marketing push to help promote Windows 8 and the RT ranges.

So that’s nearly $2bn in extra ad costs and write offs down the hole, to make just $853m in additional sales from the Surface RT series.
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http://www.gizmodo.co.uk/2013/07/su...crosofts-accounts-despite-1bn-extra-ad-spend/
 
It's not good at all. Such a missed option it's as well.
Seeing as they took 4.5% of the market, imagine what they could have achieved with
Decent hardware, decent price and decent availability, something MS and the OEMs have all failed on.
MS have the money and seeing as they took that market with that offering, hopefully they will learn and the win8.1 relaunch should be on very good hardware from the rumours, which just leaves price and availability to sort out.

Ms really did ***** up the tablet release.
 
I’d like to see the following next-generation tablets, all with a global LTE radio encompassing both FDD and TDD LTE – the Qualcomm RF360, perhaps?

1. Surface RT with a 10" 1920×1080 screen and a 120GB SSD minimum

2. Surface Pro with a 10" 2560 × 1600 screen and a 250GB SSD minimum

3. Surface Pro Plus with a 13" 3200 × 1800 screen and a 500GB SSD minimum

4. Surface Pro Extreme with a 20" 3840 × 2560 resolution (like the Panasonic prototype tablet) and a 1TB SSD minimum
(this will be a different aspect ratio)

Does anyone know what the smallest available screen sizes are for 3840 × 2160 (Ultra HD) and 4096 × 2160 (4K)?
 
Isnt 3840x2160 4K?

I hope they learn from their mistakes with Surface RT.
Wonder what they'll do for price, they've already KO'ed the resale value of current gen RT.

So the jump might cost more than we'd probably hoped.
 
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