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HP said to dump Microsoft over Surface to cozy up to Google Android for tablet efforts – July 2, 2012īad news for Microsoft’s iPad killer? – July 2, 2012ĭear Microsoft, Steve Balmer and Bill Gates: What is up with your obsession with keyboards? – June 28, 2012 Microsoft’s downfall: Inside the executive e-mails and cannibalistic culture that fueled Microsoft’s lost decade – July 7, 2012 Microsoft reportedly dumps ‘VaporMg’ chassis, will use ‘VaporMg’ only as ‘surface treatment’ – July 9, 2012 Microsoft’s Buffoon, er… Ballmer throws down gauntlet against Apple – July 10, 2012 Microsoft Surface tablet pricing leaked US$1,000 for ‘cheapest’ Windows RT model – July 26, 2012īallmer: Uh, yeah, ‘Surface is just a design point,’ you know – July 10, 2012

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Microsoft airs first TV ad for Surface tablet (with video) – October 15, 2012Īpple’s ‘iPad mini’ to obliterate Microsoft’s Windows 8, Surface RT tablet launches – October 13, 2012Īcer CEO to Microsoft: ‘Think twice’ about Surface tablets – August 7, 2012 Microsoft Surface RT tablet Wi-Fi-only 32GB for $599 with, $499 without keyboard, $699 for 64GB – October 16, 2012 Microsoft inexplicably claims Surface RT tablet lower resolution screen beats iPad with Retina display – October 17, 2012 The Verge reviews Microsoft Surface RT tablet: ‘The whole thing is honestly perplexing who is this for?’ – October 24, 2012Īnalyst: Microsoft’s Surface RT tablet priced too high, could be the next Zune – October 18, 2012ĭvorak: ‘Microsoft’s Surface tablet isn’t the Apple iPad, so it shouldn’t be priced like one’ – October 18, 2012 Gizmodo reviews Microsoft Surface RT: Do not buy inferior to Apple’s iPad the worst of both worlds – October 25, 2012 – MacDailyNews Take, January 10, 2005Īpple wannabe Microsoft paying people $100 to line up for Surface tablets at retail stores – October 26, 2012 And, yes, we shall prevail… No company is invincible. When we wrote the following nearly eight years ago, many laughed:Īs we have always said, even as many short-sightedly waved (and continue to wave) the white flag, the war is not over. MacDailyNews Take: Windows has always been dead to us, but from your lips to God’s ears, Bob. “And for all his bold re-imagining in New York last week, Steve Ballmer knows this, and that’s his dilemma.”Ĭringely writes, “Having not invented any of the products it is known for, why should we expect Microsoft to invent its way out of declining markets? We shouldn’t.” “Six years from now (four hardware generations) Windows will be dead. “This year will probably mark Microsoft’s highest desktop sales ever in dollar volume, which sounds good, except that next year sales will be less as they will again the year after and every year past that.” Desktop growth has reversed and international desktop expansion is slowing as even that market matures,” Cringely writes. Companies, governments, families, schools, and individuals are all buying fewer desktop PCs than they used to.

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“We can argue all day about whether Windows 8 is better or worse than Windows 7 or even Windows 9, but the real issue here isn’t the software at all but the platform, by which I mean the desktop PC.

Windows is doomed,” Bob Cringely writes for I, Cringley. Ballmer himself called it ‘a bold re-imagining’ of Windows. “Windows 8 shipped last week to mixed reviews.

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