Comments on: So I got to play with a ‘surface’ yesterday https://virtuallyfun.com/2012/11/08/so-i-got-to-play-with-a-surface-yesterday/ Fun with Virtualization Fri, 16 Nov 2012 16:56:03 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.0.2 By: neozeed https://virtuallyfun.com/2012/11/08/so-i-got-to-play-with-a-surface-yesterday/comment-page-1/#comment-26809 Fri, 16 Nov 2012 16:56:03 +0000 https://virtuallyfun.com/?p=2402#comment-26809 In reply to Michal Necasek.

I imagine since we haven’t heard any ‘1 million downloads in 10 days’ type stuff, poorly??

I wasn’t too thrilled with the betas & release candidates so I haven’t even bothered with the production release. the single page apps feels more like Windows 1.0 and why on earth would such a giant leap backwards be seen as anything good?

I’m assuming between the omission of ‘download another browser’, and finding out why Apple still has OS X & iOS, MS was going to be the first down the rabbit hole with a one size fits all, except that Windows 8 fits neither. I don’t even think their Direct X ‘dirty tricks’ of new features for the latest OS only will be compelling enough.

There has been two things that drive personal computing, and that is porn & video games. With steam appearing on Linux it may actually change things. Esp if Valve releases some kind of ‘steam box’ appliance. Things could actually change, or maybe even hurt the Xbox which either cost 8 or 30 billion to get where it is today.. I don’t think it has ever been profitable overall has it?

]]> By: Michal Necasek https://virtuallyfun.com/2012/11/08/so-i-got-to-play-with-a-surface-yesterday/comment-page-1/#comment-26763 Fri, 16 Nov 2012 13:21:54 +0000 https://virtuallyfun.com/?p=2402#comment-26763 In reply to neozeed.

I wonder how much better Windows 8 is doing…

]]> By: neozeed https://virtuallyfun.com/2012/11/08/so-i-got-to-play-with-a-surface-yesterday/comment-page-1/#comment-26520 Thu, 15 Nov 2012 14:01:09 +0000 https://virtuallyfun.com/?p=2402#comment-26520 I’ve heard rumors that the Surface RT sales numbers have been incredibly low. The 32GB model, for example, has sold less than 50,000 units online and half that in the the stores. Microsoft didn’t think they’d sell – so they only manufactured a small amounts – and this is why they “sold out”. The 64GB version has only sold about 100,000 units total. A friend who is an MS employee at one store (name withheld to save his job) mentioned that the return rate is very high – about 20% (1 in 5 sales come back). This would coincide with Ballmer refusing to state any sales numbers

http://social.technet.microsoft.com/Forums/en-US/w8itprogeneral/thread/81d35f49-328d-42a9-bf4e-6701a6a2208e

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I guess we’ll see…..

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