Software Uses Almost 1/2 the Storage On 32GB Surface Tablet

First time accepted submitter jigamo writes "Microsoft's newly released Surface tablets are available in 32 and 64 GB capacities. The company has disclosed how much of that space is available to the user. After taking into account Windows RT, Microsoft Office, built-in apps, and Windows recovery tools, nearly 13 GB of the available space is eliminated from user accessible storage. Microsoft's recommendations for adding additional capacity are to use cloud storage, a memory card, or a USB storage device."

Full of microsoft

[BluPhenix316]

A Tablet full of Microsoft, whats not to love?

Aha!

[sootman]

So there is a 16GB Surface! :-)

Re:32GB? That's like booting off a floppy nowadays

[Anonymous Coward]

40GB? Heck, I remember when 40MB was huge. I remember when 5MB was amazing.
Now get off my lawn.

Re:Microsoft Office

[Anonymous Coward]

A paperweight.

Re:Registry Editor

[XiaoMing]

It's supposed to be a freakin tablet.

Which is a freakin' computer running a freakin' operating system.

With freakin' lasers attached to their heads!

Re:32GB? That's like booting off a floppy nowadays

[fatphil]

This was from my 4th computer:
http://fatphil.org/images/im_floppier.jpg

Next!

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Re:Impossible for apps, just like the iPad

[Paradise Pete]

Which means you need to find a restaurant with open Wi-Fi

It has to be a restaurant now? Damn Apple and its walled Olive Garden.