Microsoft Is Sitting On Six Million Unsold Surface Tablets 550
DavidGilbert99 writes "Microsoft took everyone by surprise last year with the Surface tablet. It was something completely new from the company everyone knew as a software company. However nine months later and the sheen has worn off the Surface tablet and Microsoft's financial results on Thursday revealed it has taken a $900 million write down on the Surface RT tablets, leading David Gilbert in IBTimes to estimate it is sitting on a stockpile of six million unsold tablets."
Bury (Score:5, Funny)
I think i know an area in New Mexico where they can bury them. With good electronic company.
How can that be? (Score:5, Funny)
With those cool commercials showing people spinning these around, and snapping keyboards onto them with such gusto. Certainly the choreography should have guaranteed these things get snapped up in masses.
It can't be that people are finally paying attention, and ignoring fluff. So what gives?
Sitting On Six Million Unsold Surface tablets (Score:5, Funny)
Microsoft Is Sitting On Six Million Unsold Surface Tablets
I guess Balmer threw all the chairs out.
Now THAT's an investment! (Score:4, Funny)
Re:Bury (Score:5, Funny)
I had exactly the same thought but I was gonna say something like, "Those E.T. carts are gonna have some company soon."
Re:Release the secure boot key... (Score:5, Funny)
So, you can't run Linux on it.
No wonder it's not selling.
Re:Bury (Score:5, Funny)
Re:Bury (Score:2, Funny)
All the better that Microsoft has such fantastic experience with phoning home (or at least to the NSA).
Re:Bury (Score:5, Funny)
Luckily for us they designed their latest desktop operating system around that huge pile of landfill.
Re:Bury (Score:5, Funny)
I had exactly the same thought but I was gonna say something like, "Those E.T. carts are gonna have some company soon."
All the better that Microsoft has such fantastic experience with phoning home (or at least to the NSA).
NSA: "We've found a HUGE terrorist cell in Mexico!"
Re:BING = Ballmer Is Not Good. (Score:5, Funny)
I love Ballmer, if anyone is going to permantly bury Microsoft it will be Ballmer. I say let Ballmer stay until he is forced out by the shareholders revolting and then Icann can show him how to properly strip mine a company of anything useful.
Re:Bury (Score:5, Funny)
No, I think you mean:
Re:Bury (Score:5, Funny)
pfft, you think I read the article?
Ha!