Surface Pro 3 – Discounts Start Some companies are like some people – Plain stupid. They never learn from their follies. Take Microsoft and its doomed Surface tablets for instance. Over the last few years, Microsoft has incurred losses nearing two billion dollars on its disastrous forays into the tablet arena. No matter that Microsoft […]
Maybe Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella is not so dumb after all. The Telugu bidda knows in his heart that Indians are a value conscious bunch who will not squander $1,500-$2,500 on buying a piece of tablet junk like Surface Pro 3 that pretends to be a laptop. So Nadella did the right thing – Ignored […]
Barely have Microsoft’s Surface Pro 3 tablets started shipping, when the company has already launched a MacBook Air trade-in program. Customers who trade in select models of MacBook Air can get up to $650 in store credit that they can apply toward the purchase of a Surface Pro 3 at the Microsoft retail store. If […]
Say, is Telugu bidda Satya Nadella, Microsoft’s new CEO, a closet masochist? Why? Because the buzz is that Microsoft’s top honcho will launch Surface Mini, a smaller version of the disastrous Surface tablet, on May 20, 2014 at an event in New York City. Microsoft has flushed over a billion dollars on its large screen […]
Surface Pro 2 – Starts at $899 (without keyboard) If I’ve said it once, I’ve said it a million times. Not until hell freezes over will Microsoft see some traction on sales of its Surface tablets. The sucker has been a disaster from Day One. And nothing has changed in the last 19-months except that […]
Telugu bidda Satya Nadella faces many challenges as the new head of the foundering technology giant Microsoft. Among Nadella’s most formidable challenges (albeit one inherited from Steve Ballmer) – What should be done about those disastrous Surface tablets. It’s clear to sane minds that in a million years Microsoft cannot make a success of its […]